Hugh Laurie

The suits are sharp, the eyes icy blue, and the hair is full-bodied and finely coiffured: that's Hugh Laurie in House. But away from the cameras and outside his North-West London home Hugh was looking a shade of his TV personna and seemed to be especially lacking up top

He lives in Los Angeles, earning �240,000 a week as TV�s�sexiest man�. But with his wife and teenage children still in London, no wonder Hugh Laurie is lonely and friends fear his health - and 18-year marriage - are under strain