Bonkers? Maybe. Fabulous? Absolutely

Patsy, Edina and the fridgefuls of Bolly will soon be hogging our screens once again, as three new episodes of Absolutely Fabulous are scheduled for Christmas time in Britain, with a film on the way.

Meet Lynne Franks, the bangled PR guru who kicked it all off - the "real-life Eddy" on whom Jennifer Saunders' Buddhist-chanting fashion monster is supposedly based.

"Jen never said it was based on me," she booms. "I mean, it is and it isn't."

Well, let's look at the facts, I say. There's the successful fashion PR firm - Lynne Franks PR - that you set up in the late 60s with clients such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Katharine Hamnett. There's the hippie spiritualism you follow, and the Buddhist chanting. The large house you used to own complete with chanting room and a basement kitchen. Tick! Tick! Tick! You were friends with Saunders and Dawn French in the 90s and you even have an embarrassed child.     More Read