JILLY COOPER

tells me she’s after a new dashing blond in his 30s to be cad Rupert Campbell-Black in the latest TV adaptation of her bonkbuster Riders. He was played by handsome Marcus Gilbert, left, in the 1993 version – but wheedling his way into the chat at a lunch for The Oldie magazine, Downton’s Hugh Bonneville,

59, right, quipped he might be suitable for it, joking that he’d have to get Jilly drunk to persuade her. I’m not sure they were serving anything strong enough, Hugh…