Joanna Lumley calls for an end to stag and hen parties abroad to help save the planet 

Joanna Lumley has called for an end to foreign stag and hen parties to help save the planet – and said revellers should use their local pub instead.

The Absolutely Fabulous star, 74, said warnings from Sir David Attenborough about the environment must be taken seriously. 

Miss Lumley, who has fronted travel documentaries, said Britons should try not to fly abroad for celebrations.

Giving an online talk to the Oxford Union, she said: ‘We have got not to be doing the things which may seem great, like flying to Iceland for two days for a stag party.

‘Don’t do it, you know what I mean? Go down to the Old Bull and Bush and have few pints there if you want to, but don’t keep flying around to do useless things.’

Miss Lumley said the coronavirus pandemic was teaching people how to ‘do without’ things we usually have and that it was ‘quite a good lesson for us all’.

She added: ‘If we get through this, we as people, must learn to take responsibility for ourselves and for our families. And to do better’. 

Joanna Lumley has called for an end to foreign stag and hen parties to help save the planet – and said revellers should use their local pub instead [File photo]