Season 4 of Animal Planet’s hit series starts June 6 with no Flower—but a new narrator: the acclaimed actress, 64.

WHY SHE HASN’T WATCHED FLOWER’S DEATH I’d get very upset. I can’t be sobbing while being the voice of God in the Kalahari.

HER OWN CRITTERS We have mutts: Bishop, Louie and Fionnuala. Louie is a boxer-mastiff mix. Dan [Gilham, her cinematographer partner] says sleeping next to him is like sleeping with a safe.

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