Dame Joan Collins goes to war over a puddle: Actress sends series of bizarre tweets to council showing her posing by water (in designer footwear, of course) outside her £5million Belgravia home

By Charlotte Griffiths, Diary Editor For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 18:14 EST, 7 May 2016 | Updated: 18:45 EST, 7 May 2016

We all grumble about the state of Britain’s pot-hole riven roads, but Dame Joan Collins is taking her ‘road rage’ to extremes. 

She’s complained to the highways department of her local council about a puddle outside the front door of her £5 million home in Belgravia.

The glamorous octogenarian has been taking pictures of herself posing next to the puddle – in a range of designer footwear of course – and tweeting them to Westminster Council. 

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Dame Joan Collins is taking her ‘road rage’ to extremes. She’s complained to the highways department of her local council about a puddle outside the front door of her £5 million home in Belgravia

Dame Joan Collins is taking her ‘road rage’ to extremes. She’s complained to the highways department of her local council about a puddle outside the front door of her £5 million home in Belgravia

Water hazard: The puddles pictured by Dame Joan - who tweeted the picture directly to City of Westminster Council

Water hazard: The puddles pictured by Dame Joan - who tweeted the picture directly to City of Westminster Council

‘As soon as it rains there is this puddle,’ Dame Joan told me at a signing party for her latest book, The St Tropez Lonely Hearts Club. 

‘When I call a taxi I always have to tell it to drive past it so that it doesn’t go through the puddle and splash me.’

When I contacted the council to ask about Joan’s puddle woes, a weary-sounding spokesperson assured me: ‘We take all complaints seriously, including those from our famous residents.’

The glamorous octogenarian has been taking pictures of herself posing next to the puddle – in a range of designer footwear – and tweeting them to Westminster Council

The glamorous octogenarian has been taking pictures of herself posing next to the puddle – in a range of designer footwear – and tweeting them to Westminster Council

 

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