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Why Diana Rigg Was ‘Uncomfortable’ Being a Sex Symbol — and How the Late Star Fought for Equal Pay
Before Diana Rigg died in in 2020, 'she was uncomfortable' being considered a sex symbol in her youth, author Herbie J. Pilato exclusively tells Closer.
A year before Bruce Lee began doing martial arts on TV’s The Green Hornet, The Avengers ‘ Emma Peel, played by 26-year-old British actress Diana Rigg, was disposing of bad guys with a well-placed karate kick. “It was just an opportunity to make money,” Herbie J. Pilato, author of the new biography Diana Rigg: One Tough Dame, exclusively tells Closer. Ironically, before her death in 2020 at age 82, Diana experienced a second round of TV fame playing imperious Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones.
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