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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Can Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch solve Emma Raducanu's tennis woes?


You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to spot Benedict Cumberbatch lurking behind Emma Raducanu in this photograph.

Tennis fan Cumberbatch, 48, who played Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective in the BBC drama Sherlock, is a regular in the Royal Box at Wimbledon. As Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour colleagues grab as many freebies as possible, former culture minister Ed Vaizey recalls how he had his leg pulled before a flight to the Falklands. 'We were waiting at Brize Norton for the RAF flight and a fellow MP, Nigel Evans, said, 'Ed, if you take your British Airways executive Clubcard over to that desk, they'll put the air miles on,' he reveals on the Travel Secrets podcast.

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