(Very) Modern Manners

IS IT acceptable for a husband to advertise for companionship? Boris Johnson’s brother-inlaw Ivo Dawnay thinks so.

The National Trust creative director has paid for a notice in the New York Review of Books under the headline: ‘Adventure sought.’

Describing himself as a ‘jaded, 60-something journalist’, the husband of Celebrity Big Brother contestant Rachel Johnson says he’s ‘keen to do something, anything, before rendezvous with Grim Reaper’.

Dawnay, 65, says: ‘Anything considered and companionship welcome, preferably somewhere warm if not tropical. Research, reporting, Princess-rescue or any other task, preferably legal, considered. If you are bored, share your ideas. Come too.’ Amiable Ivo tells me the response so far has been ‘rather disappointing’.