Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie The media immediately storms the scene to report her disappearance and assumed death. Edina and Patsy, along with Lola, are taken into police custody. Saffy arrives to see them and make sure Lola is all right. Edina returns home the next day. Patsy arrives angry; she's been fired from her job because of her association with Edina and the previous night's events. The pair make up and return to the Thames to look for Kate, using Bubble with a flashing beacon upon her head to simulate and retrace how Moss may have been carried away, but the beacon comes loose
Edina Monsoon life is kept in order by her long-suffering daughter, Saffron, who has been caring for her mother ever since she was a child. Jennifer Saunders' real-life friend Lynne Franks is often credited as the inspiration for the character of Edina Monsoon. Like Edina, Franks was a high-powered London businesswoman with her own PR company, two children, an eccentric personality, ostentatious dress sense, and an interest in New Age spirituality and Buddhism. Like Edina, Franks was also notorious for her drug and alcohol use and being a neglectful parent. Franks' son has commented that "Edina is mum. The similarities in the