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‘I will fall over’: Judi Dench says worsening eyesight means she can’t go out alone

The actor, who was diagnosed with macular degeneration in 2012, has also struggled to see on film sets and learn lines having done so thanks to a photographic memory

The actor has taken part in a number of live appearances over the past year, including in an audience with Gyles Brandreth at a Christmas show at the Palladium, where she paid tribute to her late friend, Maggie Smith. Last year, she also became one of the first female members of the Garrick club, was presented with a seedling from the Sycamore Gap tree at the Chelsea flower show, which she named Antoninus and weighed in on the debate over trigger warnings at the theatre. She also appeared at the Hay literary festival to promote a new book about her long association with the works of William Shakespeare, and won plaudits for a TV show following her and unlikely buddy Jay Blades.

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