Ab Fab character ‘is gay’ say unearthed notes by Jennifer Saunders: ‘What’s her girlfriend like?’

Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha, Jennifer Saunders, June Whitfield and Joanna Lumley in Ab Fab (Image: BBC)

There we were thinking Saffy and Patsy had a thing for each other – it turns out, it was an entirely different Absolutely Fabulous character who was into women!

Indeed, unearthed notes from Jennifer Saunders about the 90s show have shown that the comedy genius conceived of Jane Horrocks’s character “as gay.”

Saunders wrote and starred in the classic sitcom as eccentric PR Edina, opposite Joanna Lumley as heavy-drinking fashion journo Patsy. Jane Horrocks, meanwhile, played Bubble, Edina’s useless PA.

Revisiting archived paperwork for last week’s Gold TV special Absolutely Fabulous: Inside Out, the camera catches Jennifer’s reaction in real time as she makes the (re)discovery about Bubble.

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