Joan Collins lived up to her most famous film role in The Bitch when she launched a catty attack on her fellow showbiz stars.

The actor said former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson appeared at the Oscars ceremony dressed like "a hooker on holiday".

Miss Collins said that what she called the "annual Oscar Frocky-Horror show" generally offered a taste of old time Hollywood glamour but, writing in The Spectator magazine, she said there were exceptions.

"The singer Bjork was persuaded to dress as a dying swan, complete with lolling head and beak, in a creation that wouldn't have looked out of place perched on a Skegness landlady's spare loo roll," the actor said.

"Juliette Binoche was being strangled by a surfeit of faux-pearl necklaces, cascading down her chest to her thighs, and hideous Toulouse-Lautrec laced-up boots.

She said: "The full horror was... Pamela Anderson. Revealing all the taste and refinement of a hooker on holiday, she chose to buck the system in denim hot pants and teeny weeny white shirt which struggled bravely to contain her..."

"Accompanied on one side by her camp, pink-shirted 'stylist' and on the other by our own dear Elizabeth Hurley, she brought trailer-trash fashion right into the 21st century," she added.
Press Association