Where is angus deayton now

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It was a very friendly parting, insists Deayton, and they live virtually next door to each other in Islington, north London. They are focused on being devoted parents to Isaac, already a budding actor, on whom Deayton clearly dotes.

Friends said the couple had long been leading separate lives. I see them all the time. We all went away on safari recently.

Yes, it's all good. Both father and son are football mad: Deayton once had trials for Crystal Palace and still plays in amateur sides twice a week: "Football is my first love - Man United, not comedy. My social life is perfectly healthy but is there anyone permanent?

Deayton is in fact about to go on tour with his first love: comedy actress Helen Atkinson-Wood, 63, his girlfriend at Oxford University and also during his early performing career.

He and Helen are joining fellow original cast members Philip Pope and Michael Fenton Stevens to recreate their influential s satirical Radio 4 show Radio Active , using the show's original scripts, on a national live tour starting later this month following a run at the Edinburgh Fringe last year.

Missing from the original line-up is the late Geoffrey Perkins, Deayton's close friend and cowriter on the show. That ambition was quickly forgotten, though. Born in into a traditional middle-class home counties family — with an ex-naval father and a teacher mother — he attended minor public schools, was good at sport and studied languages at Oxford.

But though a big comedy fan, he'd never thought of having a go at it until an Oxford contemporary, Richard Curtis , asked him to stand in for a last-minute drop-out in an Edinburgh festival revue.

Deayton enjoyed it, toured Australia with a spoof Bee Gees band , and began writing for comedy sketch shows. Looking back at his career in the 90s, certain ironies are inescapable. He fronted a programme called The Lying Game , and another called The Temptation Game , and when asked by one interviewer if fame had brought temptations his way, replied, "Actually, there are plenty of reasons why you should not give in.

Someone could sell their story to the Daily Mail. But he interprets the question quite differently. He's intensely thoughtful about the whole thing, and private, and quite aloof. I think I probably learned from him how to conduct myself. You have to kind of put your trust in someone — you can't be mistrustful of everyone you meet and everyone you come across.

And sometimes that trust is ill-founded, and what can you do, short of actually never, ever putting your faith in anyone again? Some would say the answer's easy — you stay faithful to your partner. Well, I think that's kind of being wise after the event. There are definitely people I wish I'd never met, and I wish I'd never placed any trust in. But as I say, unless you go through life expecting everyone to behave in the worst way that you could ever imagine, then, er, there's only so much you can do about it.

A tabloid reader might think Deayton has some nerve to complain about betrayal of trust. The story his former mistress sold in wasn't pretty: she said she joined him and Mayer on holiday at their Italian villa, where they would sneak off for sex, leaving an unsuspecting six-months-pregnant Mayer lying by the pool. She claimed he enjoyed a threesome with her and a friend the night before his son was born, and would often hire prostitutes to join them in bed when she was unable to satisfy his Olympian sexual appetite.

Deayton says that so many outrageous lies were printed, "it would take an entire book the length of War And Peace to actually unravel it all". But he declines to identify any — "I think it's too little too late, and I don't feel as if I really want to start unpicking it all" — so there's no way to judge his indignation, or to tell if his reticence really might be a rare celebrity example of wisdom and self-control.

And I don't think it should be me who does it. He did consider giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry , but didn't want to "regurgitate everything again". When I ask if he's been following the hearings, though, his face lights up.

Yes, every day. And, to be honest, it's the tip of the iceberg, because phone hacking is horrendous and ghastly, but what about hacking into bank accounts and medical records, entrapment, blackmail, blagging your way into someone's house or making threatening phone calls to elderly relatives?

Deayton tried to stop his ex-mistress selling her story by taking out an injunction, and says criticism of gagging orders "is always dressed up as being about a woman's right to — but to what, though? To do with the story of her own life as she chooses, is usually the answer. I suppose it's technically anyone's right to do that, but you can't divorce the fact that they're making shedloads of money by doing it.