We were fully expecting this year's Laurence Olivier Awards to be packed to the rafters with Katie Price lookalikes drinking window cleaner out of their Mucci handbags, but unfortunately it looks like this simply wasn't to be. It's not that the ladies of the night didn't try to get in, it's just that as soon as Patrick Stewart and Gok Wan arrived, any interlopers were immediately removed by the highly theatrical pair.

Funnily enough, it's a little known fact that not only is Patrick Stewart a black belt several times over in Jeet Kune Do and a master of mind, body and spirit, but he also can't stand slovenliness. Slouching especially. Gok, on the other hand, is just always up for a bit of a wrestle.*

Still, it seems to work. Like Turner and Hooch.

However, It wasn't just those two legendary scrappers at the Theatre Royal for the awards last Sunday (13th). In an event rarer than a blue moon or an edible meatball sub, both Richard Blackwood and Rupert Everett popped their rarely-seen faces out in front of the paps, along with crime solving bath-farter Benedict Cumberbatch, a bald Jonny Lee Miller, Best Actress winning Sheridan Smith, Brian May, Anita Dobson, Tamsin Grieg, Matthew Fox, Olivia Williams, Dave Stewart and of course no red-carpet event in London would be complete without Vanessa Feltz making her presence felt, both mentally and geologically.

Incidentally, is it just us or is Kara Tointon slightly irritating, but for no discernible reason?

*We can safely assume none of this is true, although we wish it was.