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    Romeo Coates

    Mar 25, 2021 4 minutes

    Weightier role

    CONCERN GROWS over frisky housewives’ favourite Hugh Bonneville’s Hollywood-style physical transformation of late.

    While history suggests such sudden image changes for our top celebrities can be a sure sign of troubled waters ahead, I’m also reminded newly-svelte and airbrushed Hugh, 57, displays reckless disregard for continuity issues when it comes to upcoming filming on the Downton Abbey movie sequel.

    Surely creator Julian Fellowes is right to expect his star actor puts some extra timber back on before once again inhabiting the more healthily-nourished Earl of Grantham?

    AS SHE CURIOUSLY INSISTS on speaking with an American accent whenever interviewed by Americans, and

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