Julie Andrews recalls being caught kissing Carol Burnett by a former First Lady

Julie Andrews recalled a hilarious prank gone awry during an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday.

The English actress, 85, told the host she was caught kissing her longtime friend Carol Burnett by former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, in the 1960s.

‘Carol and I were waiting for our friend Mike Nichols to arrive at a benefit that we were both doing,’ began The Sound of Music star, when they ‘decided we would do something silly.’ 

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‘It was Lyndon Johnson’s inaugural, so the hotel was pretty packed, but at that hour it was quite quiet,” Andrews explained. 

‘We decided to sit on a sofa in front of the elevators and wait for Mike.’

It was then they formed their plan to amuse the famed director of The Graduate by ‘be kissing or something’ when he emerged.

However their ‘big embrace’ was all for nought when the doors opened to reveal the elevator was ‘simply packed with secret service men’. 

As the women tried to keep up their amorous display, ‘eventually, a lady got out — Carol swears it was Lady Bird Johnson — the lady went down the hall, realized it might be us, and she came back,’ recalled Andrews.

‘By this time, Carol was laughing so hard that she went around the back of the sofa we were sitting on because we both had tears running down our faces at being so silly.’

The mystery woman then circled back to ask, ‘Excuse me, are you Carol Burnett?’ to which Burnett replied, ‘Yes, and this is my friend Marry Poppins!’

Claudia Alta ‘Lady Bird’ Johnson was the First Lady of the United States of America while her husband Lyndon B. Johnson served as President from 1963 to 1969.