EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Amandaland star Peter Serafinowicz splits from his TV actress wife of 23 years

Last seen driving his Range Rover retired of SoHa (South Harlesden) successful a fury successful the deed BBC drama bid Amandaland, Peter Serafinowicz is present seeking pastures caller successful existent beingness arsenic well.

I tin disclose that the talented histrion and comedian has separated from his woman of 23 years, Sarah Alexander, a prima of the fashionable BBC sitcom Coupling. The brace person 2 children, a lad and a daughter.

‘It’s precise sad, but the divided is recent,’ a root tells me.

Serafinowicz, 52, played Johannes Van Der Velde, the extrovert South African fellow of societal climber Amanda, played by Lucy Punch successful Amandaland, which has been commissioned for a 2nd series.

The Liverpool-born actor, whose Hollywood roles see the voice of Darth Maul successful Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Garthan Saal successful Guardians Of The Galaxy, is the caller big of the American crippled amusement Million Dollar Secret, billed arsenic Netflix’s lavish reply to The Traitors.

His wife, 54 (pictured with him, right), deed the headlines successful 2001 when, aged 30, she began a narration with the seasoned histrion Gerald Harper, past 70.

Harper, whose girl is 8 years older than Ms Alexander, was a prima successful the 1960s and 1970s arsenic TV’s Adam Adamant. In 2002, she near him for Serafinowicz, whom she aboriginal married.

Serafinowicz, who erstwhile had his ain eponymous tv drama show, is besides famed for his impressions of Donald Trump, whom helium redubbed successful a sassy campy voice, which became an net sensation.

Although his quality was Amanda Punch’s fellow successful Amandaland (both pictured above), helium confesses he’d alternatively beryllium paired with the histrion who plays her mother, Dame Joanna Lumley. 

‘We each person a imaginativeness of what we deliberation Joanna Lumley would beryllium similar if we met her,’ helium explains. ‘And someway she manages to completely surpass those expectations.’

School was nary laughing substance for comedian Harry Hill. Recalling his clip astatine Joan of Arc school, adjacent Hawkhurst successful Kent – which has since burnt down – Hill, 60, says: ‘The nuns utilized to deed us. 

'One deed america with a rolled-up newspaper, truthful I’d perceive to Radio 4 successful the morning, praying that it was a dilatory quality time truthful the paper would beryllium a thinner one.’ 

Money volition support Prince Harry and Meghan unneurotic for the foreseeable future, Princess Diana’s erstwhile butler Paul Burrell predicts.

‘Despite pressures connected their matrimony and lifestyle, I personally deliberation determination are nary signs of divorcement due to the fact that Harry would suffer excessively much,’ helium claims.

‘Meghan and Harry person a communal extremity to marque themselves arsenic affluent arsenic imaginable successful arsenic abbreviated a clip arsenic possible.

‘I deliberation that equilibrium works unneurotic for the involvement of their brand, their marriage.’

Burrell, 66 – whom Diana referred to arsenic her ‘rock’ – knows each astir the emotion of money, of course, having been accused of ‘a acold and overt betrayal’ by Princes William and Harry for revealing their mother’s confidences successful his 2003 book, A Royal Duty.

Many actors find giving interviews to publicise their enactment a chore. But Rosamund Pike, 46, is amazed anyone’s funny astatine all. 

‘There’s a tremendous arrogance successful actors assuming that, due to the fact that films are successful fashionable culture or theatre oregon television, that someway we’ve got a close to speech astir our work,’ the erstwhile Bond miss says.

She's self-medicated connected intoxicant and vigor tablets – and inadvertently astir incinerated herself by mounting her apron alight.

But world was erstwhile acold much chilling for Helen George than thing faced by Trixie Aylward, her Call The Midwife character. 

Recalling surviving successful a westbound London basement flat, she says she was woken by a sound connected the doorway astatine astir 2am from the police. 

‘They said, “We’ve had reports from neighbours that you’ve been crying and screaming for help”. I said, “I was asleep, what is this?”’ adds Helen, 40.

Feeling panicky, she couldn’t sleep. More constabulary visits followed – ever astatine night, prompted by reports of screaming. Thinking she was going mad, she began signaling herself portion she slept.

Finally, the constabulary were with her erstwhile they heard screaming. She explains: ‘My neighbour, with his boyfriend. He had “a precise high-pitched voice...”’

Is the acclaim Jason Isaacs is receiving for his show successful The White Lotus going to his head?

I inquire due to the fact that the Liverpudlian has dared to marque a foul-mouthed disapproval of the astir commercially palmy movie manager of each time.

Referring to Steven Spielberg’s 1991 box-office deed Hook, which stars Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman, Isaacs, 61, says: ‘Spielberg made a movie astir grown-up Pan. Who gives a f***?’

Isaacs, pictured, adds: ‘He’s a superb film-maker, but there’s a crushed helium says it’s the lone movie helium regrets making.’

The histrion starred successful the 2003 movie Peter Pan, but laments: ‘It was a unspeakable flop.

People thought, “I’ve seen the cartoon, oregon seen Spielberg’s [film]”.’