Jamie: Our Xmas-rated first date

CLASSICAL music can make life sound better, but best-selling novelist Philip Pullman has attacked broadcaster Bobby Seagull for daring to ask fans if they use it in the background. ‘When you were studying for exams, writing essays or just trying to create an environment for learning, what were your best pieces of classical music to listen to?’ asked Seagull, 38, who shot to fame in 2017 after his energetic appearances on University Challenge went viral. Pullman, 75, author of His Dark Materials trilogy, chided him online: ‘That’s not what classical music is for. Treat it with respect.’

HE’S the dashing star of Fifty Shades Of Grey, but Jamie Dornan risked scaring off his future wife, Amelia Warner, by wearing a Christmas jumper on their first date — even though it was in sunny Los Angeles in February. ‘I was worried that she wouldn’t remember me,’ the actor, 40, explains. ‘I felt I should make myself memorable. ‘And I still remember seeing her reaction when she opened the door. I could tell she got the point of me and liked me, even though she probably thought I was a bit weird.’