The Crush: Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen

We defy you to find anything on the internet right now cuter than the photos of these two seventy-something Sirs gadding about the Big Apple together in bowler hats.

This is our kind of bromance: no back-slapping and peacocking from these thespian besties, just pure affection — we’re fans of any straight man who holds hands with his gay best bud outside NY’s Stonewall Inn. Surprisingly, for pals who seem to have been a pair for life, Paddy and Ian only really hit it off on the set of X-Men in 2000 playing childhood friends turned arch enemies Professor Xavier and Magneto. What tragedy! That’s 60 years without each other.

Thankfully, they’ve made up for lost time and we have loved watching them via Mail Online: they’ve been pictured at a basketball game, eating corn on the cob at a theme park, and down the pub on mate dates. Their chemistry made them a hit in Waiting for Godot on Broadway, and it will have people who don’t know their Rogues from their Ravens rushing to see them in X-Men: Days of Future Past next month. ‘Ever since Patrick asked me to marry him in the summer, we couldn’t have been closer,’ joked the man we will always call Gandalf, referring to the fact that he officiated at the (third) wedding of the man we will always call Captain Jean-Luc Picard, this time to a 35-year-old singer called Sunny. We wish these luvvies-for-life well in their dotage.