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Robbie Griffiths

Actor Iona Stewart-Richardson, who has clown training, to play Matt Hancock in live show

Matt Hancock is a complex character who is hard to pin down. So it seems fitting that the ex-Health Secretary will be played by a woman and ex-clown in a show next month.

Iona Stewart-Richardson who went to the Philippe Gaulier clown school in Paris, will be in a show organised by Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who leaked Hancock’s WhatsApp messages. Stewart-Richardson will be reading Hancock’s messages and tells us that her clown training will “come in handy”.

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