Joan Collins, 93, highlights her ageless beauty in red hot look for 61-year-old husband's birthday


Percy, who is 32 years her junior, complemented his wife with a red ascot neckerchief


Joan Collins attends the private view of the Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum on April 15, 2010 in London, England.  (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)© WireImage
Rebecca Lewis
Rebecca LewisLos Angeles correspondent
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Joan Collins was in a celebratory mood this week, celebrating the 61st birthday of her husband Percy by sharing a gorgeous new picture of the pair.

In the picture, the two had big smiles on their faces, with Dame Joan wearing a fabulous black velvet dress with an off-the-shoulder neckline and a red feather boa. The 93-year-old wore her hair in a large blowout, and added bright red lipstick and matching nails to complete the look.

Percy, who is 32 years her junior, complemented his wife with a red ascot neckerchief.

Joan Collins and Percy Gibson pose on his 61st birthday in 2026© Joan Collins
Joan Collins and Percy Gibson pose on his 61st birthday in 2026

"Wishing my husband a wonderful birthday and much love always," Joan captioned the post. Close friends Elizabeth Hurley and Alana Stewart both commented, wishing "glorious Percy" a happy birthday.

Joan met Percy in 2000 when she was performing in a San Francisco play, Love Letters, which Percy was producing; Joan's ex-boyfriend George Hamilton was her co-star. 

Percy proposed soon after and the pair wed on February 17, 2002, at Claridges London.

Percy Gibson, Joan Collins, and a friend in St Tropez© Joan Collins
Percy. Joan , and a friend in St Tropez

HELLO! exclusive with Joan and Percy

On their 13th wedding anniversary in 2015, Joan and Percy spoke to HELLO! about their marriage, with Percy criticising detractors who said their union would never last.

"People are entitled to their opinion but it's good to prove them wrong. I've certainly never been happier and I hope that I make Joan happy because she definitely deserves that," he said.

Percy Gibson and Dame Joan Collins have a 31-year age gap© Dave Benett/Getty Images for Mar
Percy and Joan wed in 2002

Joan added: "It is my fifth marriage, and my happiest, and last. Percy is wonderful, he's my soul mate. That doesn't mean we don't bicker but we are very understanding of each other."

Joan's Hollywood years culminated with Dynasty

Joan found fame in the 1950s after training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but it was the 1980s that brought global superstardom as she starred as Alexis Colby in the soap opera Dynasty. 

It brought her critical acclaim, winning a Golden Globe in 1982 and earning an Emmy nomination. 

Joan Collins in Dynasty wearing a red suit© Getty
Joan as Alexis in Dynasty

In recent years, she has focused her work on the stage but appeared alongside her good friend Elizabeth in the TV series The Royals between 2014 and 2018.

A-list love interests for Joan included Warren Beatty

Joan spent her formative years in Hollywood; she began a romance with then-unknown actor Warren Beatty in 1959, but his infidelity led to a split in 1961. She went on to date Harry Belafonte, Dennis Hopper, Sydney Chaplin, and Ryan O'Neal

American actor Warren Beatty with English actress and fiancee Joan Collins at a Hollywood charity event circa 1960© Bettmann Archive
Warren with fiancee Joan at a Hollywood charity event circa 1960

She has been married five times. In 1952, at 19, Joan wed Irish actor Maxwell Reed who was 33. She claimed he drugged and date-raped her, and she wed him out of shame. 

She filed for divorce four years later when she found out he was allegedly offering her to older men for £10,000 a night, on the condition that he could watch.

In 1963, when she was five months pregnant, Joan married singer-songwriter Anthony Newley, and they welcomed two children, daughter Tara (born 12 October 1963) and son Alexander (born 8 September 1965). The couple divorced in 1971.

Joan Collins seated on a sofa with her two children, toddler Tara Newley, left, and baby Alexander Newley, also known as Sacha Newley, January 8th 1966.© Getty Images
Joan with her two children, Tara, left, and son Alexander in 1966

Less than a year later, Joan married her third husband, American businessman Ron Kass, while six months pregnant with their daughter Katyana (born 20 June 1972). 

Katyana was hit by a car at the age of eight and was in a coma for 42 days; she later recovered, but the stress destroyed her marriage with Ron, and they later divorced. 

Katy Kass, Joan Collins and Tara Newley attend as auction house hosts champagne reception to preview a selection of the 1000-lot estate of the late author Jackie Collins ahead of the Los Angeles sale in May at Bonhams on May 3, 2017 in London, England.  (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)© Getty Images
Joan (C) with daughters Tara and Katyana

Joan married a fourth time in 1985 to Peter Holm but she called him a "bully" and they divorced two years later.

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