He is Rowan Atkinson’s most commercially successful creation. However, Mr Bean is unlikely to reappear on our screens in any new adventures.

Atkinson, 56, says he believes he is too old to play the bumbling character. Mr Bean first blundered on to television in an ITV series, which ran for five years from 1990.

Despite the derision of some critics, the programme proved a huge success, with viewing figures of more than 18 million.

The character proved such a draw — even in the notoriously difficult US market — that two films were made of his exploits, Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie in 1997 and Mr Bean’s Holiday four years ago. Between them, the two films earned £305 million worldwide. However, Atkinson — who describes Mr Bean as “a child in a grown man’s body” — says: “I’ve got a feeling I probably won’t play the character (Mr Bean) again.

Never say never, but I just feel I’m getting too old for it. I’ve always liked Mr Bean as a cartoon-like figure, who doesn’t really age much. I’ve always seen him as an ageless and timeless being and I’m clearly not ageless and timeless. The older I get, I feel I am less qualified to play him.”

— Daily Mail

Star-studded cast for new Dior J’Adore advert

The beautiful blonde, running late and clad in dark glasses, slips incognito into a fashion show at Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors. Backstage is a hive of a pre-catwalk show activity — make-up artists, stylists and technicians swarm around models as they prepare for their runway spins while paparazzi bulbs flash and privileged Dior fashion show invitees sit, buzzing and expectant. Late though she may be, Charlize Theron steals the show in the just-released ad, directed by Seven Years in Tibet’s Jean-Jacques Annaud.

It is the latest in J’Adore Dior’s long line of successful campaigns and follows Theron’s last ad, which saw the long-time face of the brand strip off as she strutted through a Paris apartment to the sound of Marvin Gaye in 2007. This time around, Theron deftly ditches her black ensemble for something altogether more stunning and we see that joining her on the catwalk will be none other than Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich and Grace Kelly. The Oscar-winning actress, 36, said of filming the commercial in the splendour of Louis XIV’s home: “It was incredibly glamorous and fantastic. I don’t think I’ll experience something like that again in my lifetime.”

The late Hollywood greats are fleetingly — and very believably — filmed getting ready for the Dior show. Dietrich sizzles in stockings and top hat, Kelly appears as demure as ever in a grey ball gown, and Monroe, sparkling in silver, coos over the curved J’Adore bottle. The show’s glistening gold star, Theron, sweeps her way down the catwalk to rapturous applause. The production is a sumptuous and hi-octane affair, steeped in fashion history and pomp. Iconic faces — Dior could hardly have aimed higher than the endorsement of screen sirens Dietrich, Monroe and Kelly — are cleverly CGI’d into the scenes, lending their weight to the chandeliered opulence.

— Daily Mail

Oh, Kelly!

Kelly Osbourne enjoys fame as one of the judges on US television show Fashion Police. So it would be interesting to spend a penny to hear the thoughts of her acid-tongued co-presenter Joan Rivers on her latest outfit.

Kelly, 26, dared to bare her belly as she enjoyed Labour Day in posh Malibu, California, on Monday. But perhaps she would have been best advised to change her outfit at her own convenience. She wore an ’80s Madonna-esque look of lumberjack style shirt, sleeveless denim jacket and a black tube skirt. She also wore harsh red make-up, Dame Edna vintage style sunglasses, a bandana in her hair and carried a leopard-skin handbag. Kelly enjoyed the national holiday with a group of friends in the upmarket celebrity-refuge city.

But she appeared to be taking a wrong turn as one of her chums grabbed her as they made their way down the street. Perhaps she told her the fashion police were waiting further down the road.

— Daily Mail