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Release Date: 27th January 1994 (UK)
Directed by: Bob Spiers
Character: Dream Saffron
Co-Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha & June Whitfield
Genre: Comedy
Film Length: 0h30min
Distributed by: BBC

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Patsy's indecent outings with an MP land her on the front page of every tabloid in the country, but if that weren't enough, her age is listed as "47". This prompts her to do some damage control, and leads to an interview with a Hello! magazine reporter who doesn't even know who Patsy is. Patsy prepares for the interview by improvising a facelift with surgical tape, then discovers the photographer won't be along for some days. Meanwhile, Eddie has a pain in her big toe, and after calling her doctor in Switzerland, she decides to go to the hospital for surgery. Patsy tags alone, planning to get a chemical peel and some eyelid rejuvenation before the Hello! photographer arrives.

At the hospital, Edina and Patsy make life hell for the nurses and staff. While anesthetised, Edina dreams that she's on her deathbed and is receiving farewell visits from idealised versions of her family and friends: her daughter, now played by Helena Bonham Carter, has followed in her bacchanal footsteps; her ex-husband Justin – who is now Richard E. Grant – still adores her and only told everyone he was gay because he could never love another woman; her mother is Germaine Greer; and Patsy tells her how much she envies her good bone structure. Suzi Quatro provides musical accompaniment to this scenario.

In an adjoining operating room, Patsy dreams of looking young...young...young for her Hello! spread. It's all for naught, though; Edina wakes to find that her toe pains were caused by a stray acupuncture needle which worked its way from her cranium to her toe, and Patsy's skin is burned off her face.

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