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Article: Real Vicar of Dibley is alive, well and living in Hackney.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2002
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Byline: SUE BLACKHALL;ED HARRIS
SHE has three alarm clocks but is frequently late for church on Sunday.
She smokes, drinks and tells jokes with a distinctly unclerical flavour - and she says prayers as she puts on her makeup. Meet Rev Richenda Leigh, curate of the parish of All Saints, Haggerston.
The Hackney priest is an incarnation of the Vicar Of Dibley.
On her 30th birthday recently she was given a T-shirt with the letters D & G on it - standing not for Dolce & Gabbana, but Disciple of God.
"Even though I wear a dog collar, I'm a proper girlie," says Ms Leigh, outlining her credentials as the kind of vicar who might cause ...