Helen Mirren: ‘Fascination’ with me boring but part and parcel of being

Instead she spoke of a camping adventure she went on with Hollywood heavyweight Liam Neeson, whom she dated in the 1980s. I lived with him for four years and we went camping in Cornwall.

“I love camping and I still do and I miss camping, my husband unfortunately doesn’t want to camp”.

Talking about the trip, the Dame said: ‘I love camping, and I still do.

If anything, that little mishap got you all giggling on this chilly morning! We camp in this field, not like an official camping site with electricity and loos and showers, none of that, just literally a field.

Which led the actress to quickly backtrack, saying instead: ‘It rained a lot, ‘ before asking ‘Why can’t you say that?’.

“Oh, we should apologise – we can’t say things like that first thing in the morning”, said Shephard.

“We will have that debate another time otherwise we will get fired!”

The Oscar victor brought equal amounts of class and filth to the Good Morning Britain sofa this morning (July 28), although you can judge for yourselves whether the Queen star’s potty mouth was really such a punishable crime.

The cheeky 70-year-old actress has received so many prizes during her illustrious career she claims she has had an extension built on to her house dedicated to her statuettes and the speeches she has made while accepting her many accolades, which include three Golden Globes and five SAG Awards.

Asked how she felt being questioned on her beauty regime – she is an ambassador for L’Oreal – Dame Helen replied: “It’s boring”.

“It’s boring… I don’t understand your fascination with it… And it is”, she added. “And it is”. We had our tent in the back and all our stuff, our little stove and everything. “The older I get, the more I realise there are no rules really, ultimately, we all have ways of living life and we impose rules upon ourselves all the time”.

‘I don’t have a motto for life, I really don’t except I’m getting less and less rule bound, ‘ she explained.