The Absolutely Fabulous character is gay, Jennifer Saunders confirms

Absolutely fantastic creator and star Jennifer Saunders has confirmed that a character from the beloved sitcom is gay – and it’s not who we thought!

Saunders wrote and starred in it Ab Fabthe first episode of which aired in 1992, as Edina ‘Eddie’ Monsoon, the OG PR diva. She appeared alongside Joanna Lumley’s often drunk fashion journalist Patricia ‘Patsy’ Stone and Bubble – Eddie’s useless PA – played by Jane Horrocks.

And while a lot Ab Fab fans themselves would have sworn as the ‘b*tch troll from hell’, but it was Eddie’s daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha) who was of a sapphic persuasion. In Saunders’ old notes, it is revealed that it was actually Bubble who was more likely to go to the Pink Pony Club.

Aired during the Gold TV special Absolutely fantastic: inside outSaunders – even to her own surprise – makes the discovery while looking through her notes on the character.

‘Bubble is gay,’ it says here,” Saunders said to the camera. “Bubble is gay! I never knew that.”

The note continued: “How is her friend?”

Viewers of Absolutely fantastic never learned much about Bubble’s personal life – and certainly not about her homosexuality – something Saunders subsequently reflected on.

“She was a mystery,” Jennifer said. “We never delved too much into Bubble, because it’s quite fun to just have a slightly surreal character.”

It is not the first time that we have had retroactive effect Absolutely fantastic reveal: In 2016, Lumley claimed Patsy “was transgender.”

Absolutely fantastic enjoyed five series and four specials (including two Christmas editions) broadcast between 1992 and 2004; it later returned for three twentieth anniversary episodes in 2011–2012 and a film in 2016.

Saunders confirmed to Daily Mail in 2020 that “That. Is. It.” with Ab Fab content – ​​but then teased a spin-off, possibly with Lumley, in 2023.

Any form Absolutely fantastic spin-off takes, we have one request; more gay, please.

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