Neeson steps out with lover for Fiennes film

WHEN Liam Neeson admitted he once roamed the streets looking for a random black man to murder, Ralph Fiennes was quick to defend his old friend publicly.

Neeson was ‘certainly not a racist’, he insisted.

On Tuesday, Neeson returned the favour by making his first public appearance since his comments at the London premiere of The White Crow, a film directed by Fiennes.

Neeson, 66, turned up at the Curzon Mayfair with Freya St Johnston, a PR executive whom he’s been courting on and off since 2011, two years after his wife, Natasha Richardson, died following a ski-ing accident.

EVEN ITV drama Victoria can’t escape the shadow of Brexit. Tom Hughes, who plays Prince Albert, says: ‘our writer daisy Goodwin uses the p politics to show people w what was happening at the time.’ The third s series is set in 1848, a time of turbulent u upheaval across Europe. ‘It is the same old question being asked: do we separate or ally ourselves with the continent?’ says Hughes. Perhaps we’ll have the answer in another 170 years.