Joanna Lumley has followed a strict diet choice for decades - but it's packed with health benefits (Image: Lia Toby, Getty Images)

Dame Joanna Lumley has spoken about the difficulties she faced when making one of the biggest changes to her daily diet - but she persevered with it. The 79-year-old star, renowned for her roles in Absolutely Fabulous and Netflix's Fool Me Once, revealed that adopting a vegetarian lifestyle was initially an "awful" process.

She previously discussed her transition on the Waitrose-sponsored Dish podcast with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett. The actress said: "It was awful to begin with, going out to restaurants and dinner parties, because people didn't know what to do.

"They'd panic and try to make you eight eggs and sort of lasagnes which just turned into

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