Actor Dame Judi Dench says she was visited by police after someone reported she had stolen a deer. The 88-year-old said she and husband Michael Williams had herded the animal back a park after it jumped out in front of their car.
But the next day they were got a visit from police officers, reports The Mirror. Speaking at the Stratford Literary Festival, Judi said: “Michael and I had come from the theatre and suddenly, in front of us, a deer shot out of the park.
We stopped and with enormous difficulty we got the deer back into the park. The very next day the police came and said, ‘We hear you were seen taking a deer out of the park?’
"Michael said to them, ‘Well we’re in jolly good company, as William Shakespeare was caught for the same thing… the difference being we were putting it back’.”
Chatting to pal Brendan O’Hea, Judi also revealed she is working on a new book about her Shakespeare roles. And opening up about her mischievous side, she admitted once convincing a younger actor that Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner had been converted into a supermarket.
She laughed: “I said it had been turned into a Tesco for the Royal Family. It makes such sense.”
