{"id":828489,"date":"2026-11-08T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/828489\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T22:08:13","slug":"absolute-legend-dame-judi-dench-delights-shoppers-by-dropping-into-york-store-yorkmix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/828489\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absolute legend!\u2019 Dame Judi Dench delights shoppers by dropping into York store | YorkMix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead wp-block-paragraph\">Shoppers in York were surprised and delighted to bump into an Oscar winning legend today (Sunday).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dame Judi Dench popped in to Topping &amp; Company bookshop on Museum Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The York-born actor signed copies of her new book, Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?, co-written with Brendan O\u2019Hea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/judy-dench-signing-toppings-bookshop-2-insta.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576721\"  \/>Photograph: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/toppingsyork\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toppings York on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dame Judi was in York to appear at the Theatre Royal, where she was in conversation with Brendan this afternoon<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the sell-out show she shared memories and anecdotes from seven decades of performing with some of the greatest names in theatre and film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toppings York said of her visit: \u201cOur bookshop has been graced today with a visit from a York legend \u2013 the wonderful Dame Judi Dench herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere she is signing a copy of her new book Is It Too Late To Make A Run For It? with a couple of suitably starstruck booksellers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuge thank you Judi for visiting the bookshop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There post sparked a lot of love for the star. \u201cNo way! Absolute legend!\u201d said one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another wrote: \u201cA York legend! Perhaps she\u2019s here to announce Yorkshireman James Norton as Bond (we can hope).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>          <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shoppers in York were surprised and delighted to bump into an Oscar winning legend today (Sunday). Dame Judi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-828489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}