Dawn French News

CAMP Alan Carr picked a perfectly named woman for only his second snog from a girl - kissing queen Dawn French.

Many people would be head straight for the gym if they weighed as much as Dawn French, but the comedian says that she does not worry about her size and nor does husband Lenny Henry.

Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French. Capitol Theatre, June 29 Until July 9 Reviewed by Lenny Ann Low DAWN FRENCH and Jennifer Saunders launched their double-act in 1980 in a strip-club in London's Soho.

One of the singer's earliest comic cameos came in the mid-1980s, when he played a deaf A&R man in the Adrian Edmondson/Jennifer Saunders/Dawn French sketch show The Comic Strip Presents .

Jam and Jerusalem is returning to BBC1 as three one-hour specials. The comedy, which stars Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Pauline McLynn, Sue Johnston, Sally Phillips and Suzy Aitchison will hit the screen again in the autumn.

Coraline author Neil Gailman has revealed that he got Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders their roles in Henry Selick's animated film.

Dawn French is to star in a new comedy series about the lives of a middle-aged couple when they return home at the end of the working day.

THEY have just been crowned as Britain's finest female comedy duo but Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders were once fierce rivals When Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders first appeared together as a comedy duo they didn't exactly wow their audience.

Dawn French confirms there are no plans to reunite comedy duo French and Saunders in the sketch show format as the pair pick up their TV Bafta.

Award-winning comedy duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French at the BAFTAs. Naturalist David Attenborough, actor Kenneth Branagh and comedy duo French and Saunders have been honoured with gongs at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards .

The pair met in 1978 at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to receive a Bafta Fellowship at the academy's 2009 television awards.

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to be awarded with British film and television's highest order, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

Dawn French will present Paul O'Grady's show for a day when he's on holiday next week.

Donna Hartley MBE, Shrigley Hall's health & leisure club manager, explains the advantages of chocolate therapy skin treatment: "Chocolate Therapy for the face is the ultimate indulgent facial that not only smells great, it also benefits your skin too.

Getting your car clamped isn't funny, and neither is food poisoning. Unless your name is Jennifer Saunders.

LOOK out, Chris Lilley, you are in Dawn French's crosshairs - and she has more than a polite handshake in mind.

Comic Relief is urging people to "do something funny for money", as celebrities take part in a TV extravaganza to celebrate Red Nose Day.

Dawn French has revealed that she auditioned for a part in smash-hit movie Mamma Mia! The Vicar Of Dibley star said she now bore a grudge against the film because she couldn't be in it.

PHOTO: The Vicar of Dibley: Dawn French is in a long tradition of English comic clergy.

They parted ways last year, but comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have come out of retirement one last time to do a toe-tapping, show-stopping sketch for Comic Relief .