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'Lots and lots of sex': Dame Jilly Cooper on her show Rivals

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Dame Jilly Cooper's best-selling novels of the 1980s have been adapted into an eight -part Disney+ series.

She is relieved that the most outlandish sensibilities and plotlines of Rivals have not been toned down for a more sensitive 2024 audience.

The 80s really were the most fun time, she muses, 'Masses of sex, masses of drinking and parties'.

Dame Jilly Cooper is thrilled by the Disney adaptation of her novel Rivals.

She was not happy with the casting of "the handsomest man in England " Rupert Campbell-Black , the fictional former Olympian and future Conservative MP.

In Rivals, he is seen without any material at all, courtesy of a nude tennis scene.

She also enjoyed looking back at a busy year , which has included having a damehood.

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64

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57

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67

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informal

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English

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31

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offensive

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medium-lived

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