Joanna Lumley News

Veteran British stars Sir Roger Moore and Joanna Lumley are backing a new campaign to raise funds to help the U.K.'s elderly during the winter.

Ab Fab stars Patsy and Edina have been cast in Alexis Bittar's fall/winter 2012 campaign.

LIKE many ambitious TV projects, the three Absolutely Fabulous specials commissioned to mark the comedy's 20th anniversary had an inauspicious start.

When fame jewelry designer Alexis Bittar selected Absolutely Fabulous legends Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders to model his autumn/winter 2012 line, you could literally see Edina & Patsy drop their cigarettes into a pot of Veuve.

In a worda brilliant! We are beyond thrilled to reveal that Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley have been snapped up to appear in New York jewellery designer Alexis Bittar's autumn/winter 2012 ad campaigns as their Absolutely Fabulous alter egos Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone.A We love how the Ab Fab duo have essentially taken over most of the world ... (more)

Alexis Bittar's newly debuted campaign features Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in character as Absolutely Fabulous 's Edina and Patsy.

This is the second of three planned TV specials. The " Absolutely Fabulous 20th Anniversary Special " aired earlier this month, to stellar reviews , on both Logo and BBC America.

Around 400 of Britains Nepalese Gurkha fighters will lose their jobs as part of defence cuts announced yesterday, which will see more than 4,000 posts slashed from the armed forces in total.

It's a big night for the British import and phenomenon Downton Abbey , which is up for several Golden Globes and with the American premiere of the show's second season just last week.