Actress and climate change activist Dame Emma Thompson has addressed the backlash she has faced for flying, saying while she "may well be hypocritical" she now travels by air "much less".

The star, 60, came under fire earlier this year for flying from Los Angeles to London to join Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in the capital.

Addressing the accusations of hypocrisy in an interview with ITV News's Rageh Omaar, she said: "The message from Extinction Rebellion wasn't that no one can fly, it was that for decades now we have been asking for clean energy and this has been ignored.

"I may well be hypocritical by flying but I'm conscious of flying so I fly much less, but sometimes I have to when I'm working.

"But I'll continue to find ways to get to places without flying."

During the interview, Dame Emma said young climate change activists have "made me feel so ashamed that we have let them down to such a degree".