Downton Hugh’s career bum note

TV’s favourite aristocrat, Downton Abbey and Paddington star Hugh Bonneville, has revealed he scrubbed toilets for a living as a teenager. The actor, 53, was saving up to go travelling. “I took up the toilet cleaning at a legal firm. They provided the rubber gloves and brushes. I’m still pretty good at selecting loo brushes,” he tells this week’s Radio Times. Fans will see Hugh, who returns in the new series of BBC2’s W1A this week, on the big screen later this year in Paddington 2. He plays Henry Brown, while Hugh Grant, 57, stars as Phoenix Buchanan, a vain, charming acting legend whose star has fallen. But while Hugh is comfortable “sliding into the bath of middle age”, he said of his co-star: “Hugh’s probably had Botox as he doesn’t seem to have changed at all.” ■■Paddington 2 is in cinemas from November 10 and the new series of W1A starts tomorrow, BBC2, 10pm