Hopkins worse than Hannibal

PROMOTING his new BBC adaptation of King Lear, in which the monarch has an agonising relationship with his daughter Cordelia, Anthony Hopkins reveals he hasn’t a clue where his only child Abigail, 48, lives or even if she has children.

They haven’t spoken in two decades. ‘Families split up,’ he says coldly. ‘I don’t care one way or the other. You don’t have to love each other.’ Sorry, but dads do have a duty to love their daughters, not just use them to publicise a TV performance. This horrible man makes his most famous character, cannibal Hannibal Lecter, seem like a pussycat — at least it was only strangers whom Lecter ripped the hearts out of.