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Joan Collins: I have finally found Mr Right

She admits she’s kissed a lot of frogs, but Joan Collins has finally found true love.

She’s been divorced four times and dated more scoundrels than she cares to remember, but at 82, Joan Collins is finally happy.

She first met her fifth – and she hopes final – husband Percy Gibson in 2002, when he was married to another woman.

They quickly fell in love, despite Percy being 32 years younger than his new leading lady, and married soon afterwards.

“I kissed a lot of frogs before I found my Mr Right,” the Dynasty icon tells the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. “He is great in every respect and we have a great relationship. I’m not saying we don’t bicker or we totally agree about everything, but we are with each other 24 hours a day.”

Joan and Percy

After a long life well lived, Joan also has a theory about why so many marriages fail.

“Love is almost a luxury for a lot of people,” she says. “The reason most people get married is that they fall in lust and once that wears off, they look at each other and think, ‘What the f–k have I done?’”

Read more of this story in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.

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