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Let us pray as Dibley’s Vicar teases something special for Christmas.
On: October 25, 2020, By: Bill Young , In: Comedy

Since everything you read on the Internet is true, I'm taking Dawn French's teasing of something special from the creators of The Vicar of Dibley this season to the bank. Ok, fine, I can only find one mention of the absolutely brilliant news reportedly dropped recently by French, who plays Dibley's vicar, Geraldine Granger, but I'm taking that as meaning 'there is a chance' that this possibility could be worth the paper it was printed on.

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