Joan Collins reveals she doesn’t know how to use a vacuum cleaner — and last ironed in 1957

DAME Joan Collins admits she doesn’t know how to use a vacuum cleaner — and last ironed in 1957.

The actress, 88, even compared today’s complex appliances with the ­dizzying array of controls in a jet cockpit.

Asked for a new episode of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories if she could iron, Joan replies, “Iron?

“No, I wouldn’t know how. I don’t know how to use a Hoover. I’m not proud of it — it’s like being in front of a 747.”

But Dame Joan insists she does wash up at the home in Belgravia, central London, she shares with fifth husband Percy Gibson, 56.

She said: “I put them under the tap and I’ve got a little brush, and then I put them in the thing that makes them dry.

“We don’t have hot and cold running staff, you know.

“It’s just Percy and me.”

Joan appears in tomorrow’s episode, on ITV at 9pm.