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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tobi Thomas

‘I don’t watch television’: how two Brian Coxes stumped one hotel receptionist

Brian Cox and Brian Cox on BBC Breakfast
Brian Cox and Brian Cox on BBC Breakfast. Photograph: BBC/PA

It adds a whole new meaning to double booking. Or perhaps it’s more of a mathematical problem: solve Brian Cox squared? But when the question was raised by a hotel receptionist, it was left to an actor and a physicist to find an answer.

Brian Cox, the former musician turned physics professor, was the first to encounter the problem when attempting to get a key to his room in the hotel in which Brian Cox, the Scottish actor best known for starring in Succession, was also staying before a joint TV appearance.

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