LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 14: Maureen Lipman attends the Women Of The Year Lunch & Awards 2019 at The Royal Lancaster Hotel on October 14, 2019 in London, England.
(Picture: Dave Benett)Dame Maureen Lipman has criticised the Platinum Jubilee concert for having too much pop music and not enough from other arts such as ballet and poetry. “Matthew Bourne, Gilbert and Sullivan, Ted Hughes... where was all that?” the actress said as she hosted an evening at The Delaunay restaurant last night.
Describing the event as a series of singers “bending a lyric into 12 different syllables on one note”, she said only “25 per cent of the population” were pop fans, adding: “That’s fine if you like that but what about the rest of us?”
