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Dame Judi Dench has revealed the X-rated name that her pet parrot has taken to calling her at home.
The legendary actor, who turns 90 on December 9, has spoken about her beloved African grey parrot named Sweetie, which she was given during the COVID pandemic.
Explaining that the parrot is capable of producing an array of words, she told the Sunday Times: “We had a long chat just now. You shouldn’t ask what she says.”
When pressed, she admitted: “She says, ‘You’re a slut’, ‘you’re a slag’.”
Dench has spoken about trying to teach the bird to recite Shakespeare, albeit unsuccessfully.
“She has said ‘Boris Johnson’, but she didn’t get that from me,” Dench added. “She listens to the radio. My god, she’s funny though. She’s very, very funny. Everybody should have a parrot, or a myna bird. Their voices are absolutely incredible.”
Dench herself has been known to indulge in the odd bit of strong language in the past. As she recounted on stage in 2022, she thought it would be “funny” to shout at a person she thought to be her friend Alistair McGowan, only to find out it wasn’t him.
“I was driving along and saw who I thought was Alistair McGowan and I shouted ‘wanker’… and it was a total stranger,” the actor said.
In other Dame Judi news, she became tearful when speaking about her late friend Maggie Smith while appearing at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in October.
When asked about her grief, she said: “I suppose because the energy that’s created by grief…,” before becoming lost for words in tears.
While reflecting on her loved ones in another recent interview, Judi Dench said she has planted “memorial trees” in her private forest, to honour her friends including Alan Rickman and Helen McCrory.
Speaking about why she started planting trees in remembrance, Dench said: “Well, I love them. I love trees and I just thought what a nice thing that would be to do.”
She also gave hotel guests in Scotland a surprise rendition of ABBA’s ‘Waterloo’ to mark New Year’s Eve last year, alongside Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri.
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