Dame Judi Dench is slowly losing her sight due to a degenerative eye condition, but the veteran film star overcame her sight loss to fulfill a lifetime ambition to see a golden eagle in the wild.
On Sunday night's episode of the BBC programme Countryfile the 88-year-old became emotional as she was able to see the animal clearly thanks to the help of wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin, who found wider fame as the winner of last year's Strictly.
Philomena star Dame Judi and Hamza were travelling around in a car to a “secret location” when they had glimpses of the bird – before becoming successful.The actress used a monitor to help her clearly see two golden eagles flying near a kestrel in the sky and said: “Oh, yes, I do (see it)… The kestrel’s not having too good a time.
He’s being seen off.” Asked by Hamza for her thoughts, Dame Judi looked tearful while laughing and said: “I could see one and you are a witness to seeing that I saw it… (I’m) very overcome… It’s an enormous privilege, don’t you (think)?” Hamza, 33, said: “It is, isn’t it?” Dame Judi said: “How often does anybody see that?
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