Dame Joanna Lumley revealed that the incident occurred while she was in a supermarket (Image: Getty Images)
Dame Joanna Lumley recently claimed she “gripped” two women around the neck in a tense confrontation over fruit.
The star, 78, revealed that the surprising incident occurred while she was in a , where she spotted the two women shopping for a certain fruit.
However, it would appear that was keen to offer her insights into a specific variety of the healthy and then asked the women to make her a promise, the Mail reports.
Joanna said: “I was in my supermarket and some people were buying things called white grapes. And on the shelf, and more expensive, were cotton candy grapes.
“And I gripped those two women loosely around the neck. And I said, ‘Do me a favour – promise me you won’t buy the white grapes, and buy these once, just to see if you love them.’
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Joanna spotted two women shopping for a certain fruit (Image: Getty Images for Bauer)
She explained with white grapes, you “eat them and they’re nothing”, but when you eat the more lavish variety, you “savour each one”, advice that seems to have had a profound impact on the women.
Joanna added that she spotted the women six months later and they followed her into the shop, with the actress claiming that she’d “changed their lives”.
Cotton candy grapes are a seedless variety of green grapes that, unlike more common types, have a candy floss or even toffee flavour, according to the Good Fruit Guide.
In other food-related news involving the actress, Joanna joined the likes of and Dominic West to call on to address its supply chain.
The celebrities accused Nando’s of “killing” British rivers in an open letter to the company’s CEO, Mark Standish, which claimed that the Wye is turning into a “brown, lifeless mess”.
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Joanna added that she spotted the women six months later (Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
It added that it’s “killing wildlife” and “destroying habitats”, and claimed that it’s making swimming children “sick”, reading: “The culprit? Pollution from factory farms that supply chicken to major restaurant chains like you.”
A spokeswoman for Nando’s said: “We care passionately about the environment and having a positive impact. We have a water policy in place for all our chicken suppliers.
“We will meet with River Action and we are happy to discuss with them how this might be further improved.
“We are not polluting the River Wye, and our supplier has assured us that no manure is spread, stored or otherwise disposed of on any of the chicken farms we source from. We will be conducting an independent third-party audit to provide further assurances.”