Baldrick’s cunning beauty plan

BLACKADDER star Sir Tony Robinson, 71, is taking special measures to keep up with his wife Louise, 35 years his junior.

‘I’ve started using skin products now because Louise has taught me how important it is,’ he tells me. ‘I don’t know which brand though — you’d have to ask the missus!’ Robinson, Baldrick in the BBC comedy, wed artist Louise Hobbs in 2011 after a chance meeting in a restaurant.

‘Also there’s never any make-up input on TV any more,’ he adds at the Perfumer’s Story x Aures London party at Sensorium in Waterloo. ‘So if the picture’s sharp, you look like you’re from Night Of The Living Dead.’

CULTURE Secretary Matt Hancock is enjoying the high life. ‘I was sat next to Ronnie Wood at the Brits,’ he recalls. ‘I got there after a vote and I was famished. I said: “I really need a pick-me-up.” Ronnie rummaged in his bag and handed me a small,...