Sarah Miles shows off new leading man

WHAT ho Jeeves! Oscar nominated actress Sarah Miles, 79, has a spring in her step having found love with a younger man, as I disclosed last week.

I can reveal that her playmate, whom she playfully calls Jeeves, is retired lawyer Ian Hollis, 62, a divorcee with one daughter. ‘He’s extraordinary,’ Sarah tells me. ‘There is nothing he can’t do. He’s a Mr Fixit.’ The Ryan’s Daughter actress says she first met Hollis 22 years ago as he lives ‘up the lane’. They bonded recently playing chess and backgammon and now live together at her Sussex home.

Miles has had a colourful love life having been married to screenwriter Robert Bolt (twice) and she had affairs with her Ryan’s Daughter co-star Robert Mitchum, and Sir Laurence Olivier.

So will they soon be tying the knot? ‘We hadn’t thought about it,’ chuckles Jeeves. Time to fix it.