Pierce Brosnan – Italian Stallion

The main man this week has been my mate Pierce Brosnan, who was on top form when I met him for lunch.

I might have mentioned to you once or five times that I became quite pally with Pierce when I sat next to him on a four-hour plane journey. So it was great to catch up with him and hear his latest news. He’s one of my favourites out here, just because he’s such good fun and genuinely nice. I’d asked Twitter pals what they wanted me to ask Pierce. Someone asked if it was true Pierce is claustrophobic. He said yes, but most people are. And being on a plane with me made his claustrophobia even harder to handle there was no escape from my wittering!

Pierce has a movie out. Its working title was The Bald Hairdresser. Now, would you go and see that? I hardly think people would be queuing round the block for that one.

I’m glad they changed it because the film, now called Love Is All You Need, is a wee belter. You know me, I’m a big tough Glaswegian. OK, maybe not, but I don’t usually blub my way through films.

But at this I cried twice!

Once I could pretend I had something in my eye but twice? No one’s buying that. You’d think the film would be a hard sell. It’s about cancer, it’s partly in Danish with subtitles and Pierce plays a horrible man in it. But he said as soon as he read it he loved the script, could see the film in his head and was completely sold on it with no persuasion.

I think that’s partly because Pierce could relate to it. He lost his first wife, Cassie, to cancer. He said he just “got” this film, that it brought back memories. He calls it a “lovely hug of a film”. Much of the film is set in Sorrento and it’s so Mamma Mia-ish, you half expect Pierce to burst into song. He had a ball in Sorrento said he chucked away his running shoes and enjoyed a good life of pasta and wine.

Well, when in Rome. . .

The good news for girls is that it seems to have done him no harm at all. He’s shirtless in the film quite a few times and I’m no expert on these things but he looked pretty good to me. In fact, the man’s ridiculously handsome. He’s 59, almost 60 and I think most people would be happy to look like him at 30, never mind 60.

I asked if he’d have a huge party for his 60th but he said no he had a big celebration for his 59th instead! So it’s a quiet do with wife Keely Shaye Smith.

Of course, I couldn’t chat with Pierce without asking him about Bond. I had to know if he’d taken anything from Bond sets. He told me he got a few suits some of which don’t fit now! and some really nice shoes, made by Church.

Best of all, though, he got to keep his Aston Martin Vanquish.

If that isn’t a fantastic consolation for no longer being Bond, I don’t know what is!