SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Love blossoms for RSC lothario Edward Bennett as he falls for his on-stage lover in Much Ado About Nothing 

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

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There's much ado about romance for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s resident lothario, Edward Bennett.

Dashing Bennett is treading the boards as Benedick in the Theatre Royal Haymarket’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, where blonde actress Lisa Dillon plays his lover Beatrice, top.

While enjoying a ‘combative courtship’ on stage each night, the thespians, both 37, have fallen for each other off-stage too, my man at the stage door tells me.

Edward Bennett, is treading the boards in Much Ado About Nothing with Lisa Dillon playing his lover Beatrice. The thespians, both 37, have fallen for each other off-stage too
Bennett once took on David Tennant's old girlfriend, Natalie Walker

Edward Bennett, is treading the boards in Much Ado About Nothing with Lisa Dillon playing his lover Beatrice (left). The thespians, both 37, have fallen for each other off-stage too. Bennett once took on David Tennant's old girlfriend, Natalie Walker (right)

Love’s labours haven’t been lost on Bennett’s previous leading ladies. 

When he took over David Tennant’s role as Hamlet in 2008, after the then Doctor Who star succumbed to a bad back, Bennett also took on Tennant’s old girlfriend, actress Natalie Walter. 

Bennett met Walter when they played the lovers in the RSC’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The course of true love never did run smooth. Happily, Tennant, now married to The Bill actress Georgia Moffett, let bygones be bygones.

 

Why Duke's a dab hand with game birds...

Everyone knows Mary Berry, the former Great British Bake Off judge, is partial to a bit of cake. Less well known is her admiration for Prince Philip’s culinary skills.

‘The Duke of Edinburgh understands cooking,’ she says. ‘I’m very lucky to have had lunch with the Queen. I was seated next to the Duke — a delightful man — who talked about barbecuing.

‘He was saying that he took his game birds at Sandringham and stuffed them with haggis but put more breadcrumbs in to absorb the fat . . . You knew he knew what he was talking about.’

 
Looking suave in a brown leather jacket, Pierce Brosnan was the model of uxoriousness as he walked in Beverly Hills this week with his wife of 16 years, Keely Shaye Smith

Looking suave in a brown leather jacket, Pierce Brosnan was the model of uxoriousness as he walked in Beverly Hills this week with his wife of 16 years, Keely Shaye Smith

Brosnan's strong bond with his wife

Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan, 63, is nothing like the womaniser he used to play on screen.

Looking suave in a brown leather jacket, he was the model of uxoriousness as he walked in Beverly Hills this week with his wife of 16 years, Keely Shaye Smith.

The couple met on a beach in Mexico and have two sons, dashing Burberry model Dylan, 20, and Paris, 16.

 

Life's a beach for bra queen Baroness Mone. After retreating to the Caribbean this month because it’s ‘time to chill’, she has decided to give up work completely. 

She says from her St Barts lounger: ‘I’ve decided to retire in three years.’

The brassy Tory peer, 45, plans to fill her days with charity work and her role in the Lords, even though she’s made just two speeches since her elevation 18 months ago.

 

Mentioning no names...

Which blue-blooded City financier has recently switched firms to avoid bumping into his extra marital fling who shared the same office?

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