Damn, I wish I was him forty years from now.
On stage for the London opening of Waiting For Godot this week, Patrick Stewart looked every one - and more - of his 68 years.
Yet it seems there is life in the old dog yet, if his recent romantic history is anything to go by.
Fresh from starring as the flea-bitten tramp Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's play opposite Sir Ian McKellen, Stewart arrived at the after-show party on the arm of a second much-younger companion.
Months after parting with the British actress Lisa Dillon, who was almost 40 years his junior, Stewart is enjoying a relationship with a 31-year-old New York-based jazz singer by the name of Sunny Ozell.
They joined guests including Sting and Paul McCartney with his girlfriend Nancy Shevell.
Miss Ozell happily posed with her new boyfriend and the former Beatle for photographs.
The couple met when Stewart was starring in Macbeth on Broadway last year. Stewart revealed he had a new love in a recent interview, but referred to her only as 'a delightful girlfriend who happens to live in New York'.
The actor's second marriage to TV producer Wendy Neuss, who is 18 years younger than him, ended in 2004. After that, he surprised many by stepping out with Miss Dillon.
At 25, she was younger than Stewart's two children - Daniel, then 37, and Sophie, then 30 - from his first marriage to Sheila Falconer.
He met Miss Dillon when she auditioned for a role in Ibsen's The Master Builder - aptly enough a tale of a man who falls passionately in love with a woman young enough to be his granddaughter.
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