“To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works, you do it once a year - who cares? I’d never dye my hair, although I know everyone thinks I do.

He said of Hollywood stars: “The current crop of actresses - Nicole Kidman and Kate Bosworth etc - they’re just nothing. There’s nothing to fancy or fantasise about there. I like old-school glamour, Raquel Welch and Brigitte Bardot, voluptuous and naughty. Mistresses.”