Luvvie-in to end them all!

Featuring a scruffy Jude Law, a skinnier than ever Nigella — and more air kisses than Oscars night

SIR Tom Stoppard’s 80th birthday bash at the weekend was doubtless a stylish, soignee and extremely generous affair. The champagne flowed and the conversation was sparkling, too.

But what really made the party sing was the playwright’s guest-list with its host of right-on luvvies.

There was a bizarrely dressed Jude Law, looking tiny next to his leggy girlfriend, and Nigella Lawson, who seems to be vanishing before our eyes.

Stephen Fry was red-faced in the sunshine of the Chelsea garden venue, while BBC arts grandee Alan Yentob looked careworn by the embarrassments over his involvement in a failed charity.

Jeremy Irons and Damian Lewis looked actorly in their different outfits, while Channel 4’s Tory-basherin-chief Jon Snow went collarless. Other guests included Ralph Fiennes, Sir Michael Gambon, director Trevor Nunn and rocker Pete Townshend.

If the collective noun for luvvies is a ‘love-in’, then Sir Tom’s party – organised by his wife Sabrina Guinness – was a paragon of the type...

Jeremy Irons, 68, and his wife Sinead Cusack in their thespish finery. Luvvie rating: 7/10 No luvvie schmoozeathon is complete without Stephen Fry. Luvvie rating: 10.5/10

With wife Precious, Jon Snow, who at Glastonbury is said to have shouted: ‘F*** the Tories!’ Luvvie rating: 8/10

Damian Lewis, hardman star of TV drama Homeland, and his actress wife Helen McCrory seemed to think it was fancy-dress. He came as a 1920s American gangster and she as Yoko Ono. Luvvie rating: 9/10

Alan Yentob donated the pyjamas he wore for a tour of Calais refugee camps to the actor playing him in a play about his failed charity Kids Company. So he had to come in his most shabby day-wear. Luvvie rating 8/10

For a fashion goddess, Twiggy, 67, has a lot of explaining to do about this ill-matching outfit. Happily, her actor husband Leigh Lawson keeps it simple in smart black trousers and a blue striped jacket. Luvvie rating 5/10

Birthday boy: Sir Tom

Pictures: BACKGRID Oh Jude Law – you’re aged 44! Please stop trying to be ‘down with’ your five kids. It just doesn’t work – especially the midlife crisis low-scoop T-shirt that shows off your chest hair and curranty nipples. And you look tiny next to girlfriend Phillipa...

Quick, pass Nigella Lawson a canape before she keels over from malnutrition. Lemongrass and cured salmon is one of her favourites. Luvvie rating: 7/10

Jeremy Paxman looks as if he’s just crept out of the bushes. Whether he was hiding from his exwife, or his new muchyounger girlfriend, isn’t clear. Regardless, he’s coordinated his jacket lining and shirt beautifully. Luvvie rating: 6/10