Dame Joan Collins admitted she doesn’t “usually wait for men” as Schitt’s Creek star Eugene Levy left her stewing on his latest TV show. The third episode of the second series of the Canadian stars travelogue The Reluctant Traveler sees him pay a visit to the Dynasty star in St Tropez where she has a home.
However, he seemingly gets distracted en route to their meeting by people handing him champagne leading Joan to brusquely enquire as to his whereabouts stating: “Where is he? I don’t usually wait for men.”
The incident comes just days after the glamourous star was pictured enjoying a date night with her husband Percy Gibson. She pulled out all the stops in a black satin dress and stylish black blazer embellished with sequins.
She forwent glitz for her meeting with Eugene but still looked suitably glamorous in a blue, purple and white floral off-the-shoulder dress and a wide-brimmed hat. She set the look off with a diamond heat pendant and large gold earrings and scraped her long hair back into a ponytail.
When he eventually arrives the pair chat about the area with Joan revealing that she has been visiting it since she was a teenager. However, she agrees that it has changed considerably over the years.
Reeling off some ot the famous names who were fans of the hotspots she tells him: “Coco Chanel would come here in the 30’s, with Hemingway and people like that.
“So a lot of people have been coming here for a long time, but it was basically undiscovered.”
“I do think there’s a lot of showing off with those big yachts,” nowadays she intimates about the area nowadays.
In a revelation that would shock her famously pampered TV alter ego Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter, she admits: “I prefer the mountains and hills.”
Advising Eugene on how to get the best from the area she tells him: “You should definitely go on the backstreets…where you’ll see all these wonderful artisan shops that are not Prada and Gucci and all of that, but you have to go through the back alleys.”
This season of the show sees Eugene embark on a grand tour of Europe. Episodes one and two saw him visit Sweden and Scotland restively and following his sojourn to France he will also visit Germany, Italy, Greece and Spain.
The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy airs on Apple TV+ with new episodes weekly every Friday through April 12, 2024.