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'Eating as much as possible' Dame Joan Collins admits she gained half a stone in isolation
Joan continued: " Of course I was [in tracksuits] weren’t we all?“I gained about half a stone.“I was eating as much as possible because aside from drinking bottles of wine and polishing off chocolates – what else was there to do?"She also added that she watched “endless” television, reaching up to nine hours a day."I would watch the morning programmes and read all the papers, so that would take me up to lunchtime.”The former Dynasty actress said that she thinks she has a “happy gene” as she never found herself in a low mood or depressed.In a previous interview with The Mirror, she said that she believed she was “born with a gene of exuberance and excitement.”She continued: “I wake up every morning and get enthusiastic about my first cup of