Eileen Atkins: I don't see why ageing can't be attractive

Actress Eileen Atkins has two Oliviers, one Bafta, and the title 'sexiest pensioner on the planet'. She plans to grow old gracefully. Eileen Atkins in rehearsals for 'The Female of the Species' Award winning: Atkins as Deborah Jenkyns [centre] in Cranford, which won her a Bafta Dame Eileen Atkins has several pressing questions on her mind: Why is it that women are generally superior to men? Why can't she help but admire Cherie Blair? And why is it that men who help out around the house are always a sexual turn-off? "I hate saying it," she laughs, sitting on a tatty green sofa in the rehearsal rooms for her new play, "But I'm afraid women don't like men who are domesticated. A man in an apron means sex goes out of the window. Not in every case," she hurriedly adds. "Some men are able to be good with their kids, do all the... [read full story]