Jamie Dornan

Actor Jamie Dornan loves breakfastin bed at Claridge's, martinis at Dukes and River Café feasts with Stanley Tucci

- ELSIE MACGREGOR

Home is…

I live in Richmond with my wife and three kids — we’ve lived there for about two and a half years and we were in the Cotswolds for seven years before that. It’s a big change. Richmond’s not cool but that’s what I like about it. I lived in Ladbroke Grove for years and it’s quicker for me to get to Soho from Richmond than it is from Ladbroke Grove.

Where do you stay in London?

If I need to stay in town and someone else is paying, I’ll go for Claridge’s — I love the food there. It’s so decadent and over the top to have breakfast in bed there and I love it.

Where was your first flat in the capital?

I lived in a bedsit about the size of a table on Hackney Road, which had a communal toilet two flights of stairs up. I lived there with five strangers and was meant to be there for a year — I lasted eight months before I moved into an arguably worse place in Shadwell where the landlord held a rusty knife to my neck over a misunderstanding about rent.

What was your first job?

I worked in a pub called Tattersalls Tavern in Knightsbridge, until I found success modelling.

Where would you recommend for a first date?

Activity dates are very revealing, so I think tenpin bowling.

Which shops do you rely on?