SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Rowan Atkinson's daughter Lily is no chip off the old Bean!

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

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Despite sharing genes with the world’s biggest on-screen buffoon, Mr Bean, the daughter of Rowan Atkinson has blossomed into an extremely glamorous young woman, as my picture below shows.

Soul singer Lily, 20, poses backstage before her gig at a venue in Chelsea in a low-cut top. 

Her long dark curls and big hazel eyes have clearly been inherited from her mother, Rowan’s ex-wife Sunetra Sastry, whom he divorced last month in only 65 seconds after 24 years of marriage.

The daughter of Rowan Atkinson, soul singer Lily, is pictured posing backstage before her gig at a venue in Chelsea in a low-cut top
Her father with ex-wife, Sunetra Sastry

Glamorous young woman: The daughter of Rowan Atkinson, soul singer Lily, is seen, left, posing backstage before her gig at a venue in Chelsea in a low-cut top. Right, her actor father with his ex-wife, Sunetra Sastry

Meanwhile, rather awkwardly, her father’s girlfriend of 18 months, comedienne Louise Ford, is only 12 years older than Lily. Rowan, 60, and Sunetra, 58, also have a 21-year-old son, Ben.

 

Portly polymath Stephen Fry married a stand-up comedian 30 years his junior in January, but his eyes are already wandering to even younger talent. 

The QI host, 58, encouraged his social media followers yesterday to buy a charity calendar featuring male students from the University of Warwick rowing club posing naked.

‘These guys are heroes,’ he tweeted breathlessly. ‘Perfectly acceptable to look at too.’

 

Sophie's taming of the shrew

Many of her grandfather Roald’s classic tales include bizarre animal anecdotes, but author and former model Sophie Dahl discovered this week that truth can be stranger than fiction, after finding a feral intruder in her bed.

Stranger than fiction: Ex-model Sophie Dahl (seen in July) discovered a feral intruder in her bed this week

Stranger than fiction: Ex-model Sophie Dahl (seen in July) discovered a feral intruder in her bed this week

Attributing the following words to her cat Princess, she writes: ‘Me? Oh no, I had nothing to do with the squeaking live shrew in your bed yesterday morning at 6am, the shrew that you dutifully chased around your bedroom in your nightie, caught 40 minutes later downstairs, and delivered safely to a flower bed, still in your nightie.’

Where was Sophie’s gallant pyjama-clad husband Jamie Cullum?

'Nothing to do with it': Attributing the following words to her cat Princess (above), Sophie writes: ¿Me? Oh no, I had nothing to do with the squeaking live shrew in your bed yesterday morning at 6am'

'Nothing to do with it': Attributing the following words to her cat Princess (above), Sophie writes: ‘Me? Oh no, I had nothing to do with the squeaking live shrew in your bed yesterday morning at 6am'

 

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