Although I am enjoying The Tudors on BBC2, the Showtime period drama hasn’t quite lived up to my (possibly too high) expectations and media hype. This oh-so-slight disappointment meant that when watching the onscreen posturing of the impossibly pouty Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII on Friday night, I became distracted by his background crony William Compton played by Kris Holden-Reid. This chum of the kings seemed to bear an uncanny resemble to falsetto warbler and hubby to Gwyneth Paltrow, Coldplay singer Chris Martin.

With their two pictures lined up, I am more convinced of the similarities: the beards, slightly messy hair and wide foreheads. Granted Chris Martin’s blue eyes are more boggly and scary than anything Holden-Reid could muster, while the actor is decked out in finery even Martin’s music royalties would struggle to finance – but the resemblance is there. Uncanny.