JR: You look swell Sue Ellen

If only he'd worn a Stetson. Shaftesbury Avenue, not Southfork, was the venue for the reunion last of the most iconic TV double act of the Eighties: J R and Sue Ellen Ewing.

Linda Gray - who played the lip-quivering, bourbon-pickled queen of Dallas - is currently wowing West End theatregoers in The Graduate, and Larry Hagman - aka JR - dropped in to the Gielgud Theatre to see her.

Now 70, Hagman said Miss Gray had given a "wonderful performance" and with a JR-style tilt of his eyebrows indicated he particularly appreciated the nude scene.

"She's in great shape." If he'd had that Stetson, he would have tipped it in her honour. The old charmer.