HISLOP AND A CAST-IRON BLUNDER

PRIVATE Eye editor Ian Hislop, a regular panellist on Have I Got News For You?, was approached on a rural railway platform in Suffolk by a woman declaring herself to be his biggest fan. She told him: ‘I love you in that digging thing.’ Hislop, whose magazine has conducted a number of major investigations, beamed with pride. ‘I was wondering which of my triumphs she was referring to. Then I realised she thought I was Toby Jones, the star of BBC’s comedy about metal detecting.’