Joan Collins enjoyed a sun-soaked catch-up with longtime friend Elizabeth Hurley in St Tropez on Friday, joining her for lunch at the celebrity-loved hotspot Club 55.
The 93-year-old actress brought her signature glamour to the outing, wearing a blue and white dress teamed with an oversized hat.
Joan and Elizabeth’s bond goes back decades, with the pair also sharing the screen as mother and daughter in the E! drama series The Royals.
Elizabeth, 61, made the trip with her son Damian, 24, and her boyfriend of just over a year, Billy Ray Cyrus, 64.
Posting a video from the lunch on Instagram, Joan joked to her followers: ‘Here I am, with all my friends and we’re all spending her money. So happy, whatever day it is. Thursday or Friday, Saturday.’
Elizabeth responded: ‘Thank you mummy dearest,’ prompting Joan to quip back: ‘Forget the mummy’.
Joan Collins reunited with friend Elizabeth Hurley for lunch in St Tropez on Friday
Joan captioned the clip: ‘#friends @leclub55officiel #95farenheit @elizabethhurley1 @damianhurley1 @fennelltheo @louise.fennell @rene_horsch @billyraycyrus.
The actress has had her villa in St Tropez for three decades. She purchased the five-bedroom property in the early 1990s and has spent three to four months there every summer for more than 30 years.
Throughout her career, Joan has offered a glimpse at the regime that’s helped to maintain her famous looks, and she’s insisted it has nothing to do with Botox or any other plastic surgery.
Joan has shared that as she’s gotten older, she’s learned that one way to maintain her figure is by ‘eating less’, and said she now eats a quarter of what she did when she was 25.
The star said that she hopes she’ll live until she’s 100 with her healthy lifestyle, adding she’ll do a quick fix of ‘broccoli and boiled eggs’ if she needs to lose a few pounds.
In an interview with The Express, she said: ‘No knives. Had Botox once, years ago. Hated it. I’m an actress, I have to have expression.
‘You need half the food at 50 as you ate at 25. Half as much again at 75. I’m going to live to be 100, and I am telling you: look after your skin. Never leave the house without make-up.
‘Don’t diet, just eat less. Never drink tap water. If you need to drop a few pounds to fit into something, eat boiled eggs and broccoli for three days.’
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The actress, 93, looked effortlessly glamorous in a blue and white dress and large hat for the meeting at Club 55
And Elizabeth, 61, had flown out to see Joan alongside her son Damian, 24, (pictured) and boyfriend of just over a year, Billy Ray Cyrus , 64
While she has been captivating audiences for decades, Joan’s fitness and nutrition have been just as enduring.
‘My exercise regime has changed a lot over the years. I was very active as a young girl. From the time I was 16, I went to discotheques, dance halls, and nightclubs and danced the night away for hours and hours,’ she told Platinum magazine.
After that, she would do a lot of gym workouts and Pilates, but admitted as you get older you ‘cannot put that amount of stress on your body’.
In fact, she had to scale back her movement in recent years due to a trapped nerve, which led to her not being able to function for two months.
