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Richard E. Grant recalls how his 'hilarious' wife Joan Washington ruled out eligible women for him before she died - including his idol Barbra Streisand


Dialect coach Joan tragically passed away in September 2021 aged 74, eight months after she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.

Dialect coach Joan tragically passed away in September 2021 aged 74, eight months after she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer (Seen in 2019) 'They say you should never meet your idols... and after I had this conversation with her and came back to London, and Joan said - even though she was then 79 years old – "If she wasn't married to James Brolin, would you still jump her bones? 'So, I write a letter to Joan every night about what's going on, and I find that it feels like I have a physical, tangible, ongoing conversation with her that's written down, I've found that really, really helpful.

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