Dame Joan Collins, 92, slams ‘loutish’ Lime bike users in Instagram post

Dame Joan Collins furiously lashed out at the ‘loutish’ users of cycle hire company Lime Bike while strolling through London on Saturday.

The iconic actress, 92, took to Instagram with a scathing post after coming face to face with dozens of bicycles that had been dumped and left blocking the pavement. 

Despite her outrage, Dame Joan still looked chic as ever in a summer hat and shades while letting out her frustrations and tagging the £400M company in her post.

She captioned the snap: ‘#shocked about the #loutish behavior of @lime #bycicle users #pavementsareforpedestrians #limebike’.

A gallery of recent images assembled by MailOnline shows how frequently the branded e-bikes have been dumped in locations that make them a menace for pedestrians or a danger to motorists. 

Lime own and operate most of the estimated 30,000 bikes in London, and tens of thousands of city dwellers are thought to have worked out how to take the bicycles without registering or paying – which is known as ‘hacking’.

Dame Joan Collins, 92, furiously lashed out at the ‘loutish’ users of cycle hire company Lime Bike while strolling through London on Saturday.

And while the company fines users who park in an unacceptable way, it has no control over hacker riders who face no such disincentive.

Introduced as a green and cost-efficient way to get about town they have become a popular mode of transport especially for young Londoners, but have have become a plague for many as they find their way to the shops or pub blocked by a Lime bike.

Lime is guarded about disclosing detailed operational information but a spokesperson did insist earlier this year the issue has improved significantly in the last 18-24 months since the number hacked is thought to have peaked at around 1,500 at any time.

It comes after Dame Joan shared a rare picture of her daughter Katy as she celebrated her 53rd birthday as she paid tribute to he youngest child on Instagram. 

She cut a chic figure in the snap of her and her daughter as she wore a white linen hat with tweed blazer and pearl cross necklace.  

Meanwhile Katy, whose father is Joan’s former husband Ron Kass, sported a black beanie hat and a quilted jacket as she beamed alongside her famous mother.  

‘My beautiful #daughter Katy enjoying the happiest of birthdays last Friday #daughtersareforever #daughterslove,’ Dame Joan captioned the snap. 

Dame Joan also has two older children Tara and Alexander Newly from her first marriage to Anthony Newly.

A gallery of recent images assembled by MailOnline shows how frequently the e-bikes have been dumped in locations that make them a menace for pedestrians or a danger to motorists

It comes after Dame Joan shared a rare picture of her daughter Katy as she celebrated her 53rd birthday as she paid tribute to he youngest child on Instagram 

‘My beautiful #daughter Katy enjoying the happiest of birthdays last Friday #daughtersareforever #daughterslove ❤️❤️❤️,’ she captioned the snap

Aged just eight, Katy was almost killed in a horrific road accident and spent 47 days in a coma with serious head injuries and a broken collarbone.

Doctors feared she would not survive and she was left with brain injuries.

Aged 41 in 2012 she also suffered a fall in the foyer of her mother’s Hollywood apartment block.

She broke her eye socket and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai hospital in Beverly Hills but went on to make a full recovery.

Percy, the longest-lasting of Joan’s husbands, is more than 30 years younger than her, a gap she dismisses in interviews with the line: ‘If he dies, he dies.’

The long-standing couple celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary with a star-studded party at Claridge’s last year.

Originally from Peru, Percy is a noted Hollywood producer, known primarily for producing Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Aged just eight, Katy was almost killed in a horrific road accident and spent 47 days in a coma with serious head injuries and a broken collarbone (Joan and Katy seen in 1983)

Dame Joan shares daughter Katy with her former husband Ron Kass (Seen together in 1982)

Aged 41 in 2012, Katy also suffered a fall in the foyer of her mother’s Hollywood apartment block (Seen with Joan in 2023)

Joan has found the right man and even joked to Jonathan Ross in 2020 that her marriage to Percy had run as long as the previous four marriages combined (Seen in November)

He is the last man standing in a long-lineup of lovers for Collins, all of whom have been well-documented over the years. 

Joan’s first husband, Maxwell Reed was an Irish actor who she walked down the aisle for in 1956.

The pair divorced that same year and Joan moved onto Warren Beatty.

The two became engaged in 1960, but his alleged affairs broke them apart.

A 1963 marriage to the actor-singer Anthony Newley produced two children and one divorce.

She then wed former Beatles manager Ron Kass in 1972 who fathered her daughter Katie.

Her fourth marriage was to singer Peter Holm, which lasted three years and resulted in a fall out with her sister Jackie who did not like him.

Now however Joan has found the right man and even joked to Jonathan Ross in 2020 that her marriage to Percy had run as long as the previous four marriages combined.