As one of our greatest stars of stage and screen, Dame Judi Dench has amassed a fortune during her long and celebrated career. But she has revealed that it was a one-off soft spread TV advertisement, in which she starred alongside her late husband, that paid for her Surrey home - and she has no recollection of filming it.
Now reported to be worth around £8m, the farmhouse was bought by Dame Judi and actor Michael Williams almost four decades ago for a much smaller sum, although it would have been significant back then. The acting legend makes the revelation during Louis Theroux's latest celebrity interview for his new BBC Two series.
In the episode airing on Tuesday, November 1, the legendary British actress, 87, opens up about her marriage to fellow actor Michael, with whom she starred in sitcom A Fine Romance and who passed away in 2001 after a battle with lung cancer.
