The Irish Mail on Sunday

It’s Jude Phwoar no more!

Just weeks after setting his female fans’ pulses racing in those skimpy trunks...

- By Katie Hind news@mailonsund­ay.ie

STRUGGLING to stand up straight in an ill-fitting suit as his tired eyes droop closed, he might be mistaken for just another late-night reveller on the streets of central London.

But this is a barely recognisab­le Jude Law, out on the town with a friend a few nights ago.

The snap records a remarkable – and unfortunat­e – transforma­tion from how the actor appeared just three weeks ago when he paraded his honed torso in just a pair of cream white Speedos while filming in Venice.

Those photograph­s provoked delighted comment from his many female fans about how, at the age of 46, Law had lost none of his matinee idol looks or chiselled athleticis­m.

But he cut a very different figure in Soho, as his jacket pinched awkwardly at his waist, and he struggled to hold up a pair of heavily creased trousers with one hand.

The famous golden locks that once lit up the screen in The Talented Mr Ripley were tufted up, which – with the ill-fitting suit and dopey hangdog expression – gave him more than a passing resemblanc­e to comedy great Stan Laurel.

He and his mystery friend were engaged in an animated conversati­on before Law, ever the gentleman, showed her to a car and then walked off back into Soho.

The father of five, whose string of past lovers include Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller, is engaged to long-term girlfriend Phillipa Coan, and it is rumoured that they will be getting married in France next month.

In his next film, Vox Lux, Law plays the manager of a pop diva played by Natalie Portman, while he donned the skimpy trunks to reprise his role as Pope Pius XIII in the forthcomin­g TV series The New Pope.

 ??  ?? ANOTHER NICE MESS: With his ill-fitting suit, tufted-up hair and droopy eyes, Jude Law captured the spirit of Stan Laurel
ANOTHER NICE MESS: With his ill-fitting suit, tufted-up hair and droopy eyes, Jude Law captured the spirit of Stan Laurel
 ??  ?? TONED: Just three weeks ago Jude wowed fans with his chiselled torso
TONED: Just three weeks ago Jude wowed fans with his chiselled torso

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