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Who’s the DADDY? Barmy lag Bronson wants Tom Hardy to be surrogate

- By Antonia Paget

BRUTAL jailbird Charles Bronson is pleading for screen stars Tom Hardy to father hi his baby. If Tom s says no, the lag known as Britain’sBrita most violent prisoner will urge EastEnder Danny D Dyer to donate sperm. Brons Bronson, 64, who has been behind bars for 43 years, said in a l letter: “I know Danny Dyer w would be up for it.” Sinc Since Bronson got en engaged to s oap actress Paula Williamson, 37, in Februa February he has been keen on having a baby. But he has been denied conjuga conjugal visits at Wakefi Wakefield j ail, West York Yorks. Now he s says Taboo TV star Tom Tom, 40, who played him in a 2008 film, would make theth perfect “surrogate dadd daddy”. Bronson wr wrote to a friend: “The pow powers that be seem to think I c can’t have a baby with my Pa Paula. But you know... I always come up w with something special. Maybe a surroga surrogate daddy. If Tom says yes, I think it’s g got to be him. “Get a meet withw Tom. See what he thinks. I think Paula would go with that choice. I’ll be discussing it with my Paula. It w will be nice for her to have a baby to keep her happy while she awaits my freedom. “If Tom sh shuns the offer he said he will turn to Danny Dyer, also 40, to help ensure the baby has the “jet black hair” Bronson once had.

He also revealed he hopes to have twins – or even triplets.

Bronson, whose crimes include threatenin­g to eat a fellow inmate, hopes to wed Paula this autumn before a parole hearing on November 7.

Paula has been in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks. She began exchanging letters with him in 2013 and accepted his proposal over the phone six months ago. Twice-divorced Bronson revealed his wedding plans to a friend, saying he wanted Paula to ride to the occasion on a white horse.

He wrote: “Make sure you get a white horse coz I want to see Paula arrive on it.

“Her ring i s being designed by a top jeweller, Andy Croft in Doncaster. It’s a beauty.

“Oh important. There is a big party in London to celebrate the wedding a few weeks after. Don’t forget, I don’t want it to be a gangsters party. I am an artist, not a gangster.”

He changed his name from Peterson to tough guy actor Bronson’s in the ’70s.

Two years ago he changed it again to Charles Salvador in tribute to his favourite artist Salvador Dali. He spends 22 hours a day in a cell creating thousands of paintings.

Luton-born Bronson was jailed in 1974 for armed robbery. He was freed in 1988 but caged again two months later when held in another robbery.

He has attacked other inmates, held a librarian hostage and a lawyer to ransom. He was jailed for life in 1999 after kidnapping an art teacher in a 40-hour siege.

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