They clearly don’t make (real) stars like “our Joanie” anymore - one thing that I’ve always loved about Joan is that despite having huge success in Hollywood, she always held on firmly to her sense of identity and her British roots, which resonated with myself as an Irish patriot - it must surely have hit her very hard when she lost her beloved sister Jackie, an amazing and wonderful woman taken from us way too soon and yet, Joan bounced back, stronger than ever in her later life and looking even more fabulous while doing so ❤️
52 years old Irish gay man living in Manchester 21 years, grew up in Rural Ireland and a huge Joan Collins fan - loved her as Alexis in Dynasty - why has Ru Paul not had her as a guest judge on Ru Paul’s Drag Race yet, along with Kylie Minogue? Joan Collins looks as wonderful as ever, we are so lucky to still have her with us 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪❤️
@@rhodamackenzie8120 not a problem - both of us are in a similar age group and although life was tough for us in some respects when we first started out on our coming out journey, by the same token it was good and certainly better in some respects, compared to what we see with young people today, despite the advances in LGBT rights and equality and I do worry for future generations going forward - I still have extended family in my home County of Meath (some of whom are parents of very young children) and I travel home frequently on the train and ferry via Holyhead and Dublin from Manchester to visit them - although raised as an only child in our immediate family after Vatican II, I’d drifted away from my faith and was on the gay scene for many years, I subsequently became a traditional Catholic (Mass and Rosary in Latin) 18 years ago - as long as I’ve lived in the U.K. I still (proudly) have held and renewed an Irish passport the entire time and I still consider Ireland my real home, as my spiritual connection to my homeland is as important to me as is my faith
