Thanks to his disarming smile and a mop of thick blond curls, Paul Nicholas became Britain’s heartthrob playing Vince in hit sitcom Just Good Friends.
Forty years on, the actor is glad he’s no longer deluged with letters covered in hearts and sprayed with heady 1980s scents – but he misses his halo of luscious golden ringlets.
Paul, 77, says: “I’m not a heart-throb any more. I’m an almost bald old chap who’s desperately trying to hang on to his last bit of hair – without much success, I might add.