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But though a big comedy fan, he'd never thought of having a go at it until an Oxford contemporary, Richard Curtis , asked him to stand in for a last-minute drop-out in an Edinburgh festival revue. Deayton enjoyed it, toured Australia with a spoof Bee Gees band , and began writing for comedy sketch shows. Looking back at his career in the 90s, certain ironies are inescapable.

He fronted a programme called The Lying Game , and another called The Temptation Game , and when asked by one interviewer if fame had brought temptations his way, replied, "Actually, there are plenty of reasons why you should not give in.

Someone could sell their story to the Daily Mail. But he interprets the question quite differently. He's intensely thoughtful about the whole thing, and private, and quite aloof. I think I probably learned from him how to conduct myself. You have to kind of put your trust in someone — you can't be mistrustful of everyone you meet and everyone you come across.

And sometimes that trust is ill-founded, and what can you do, short of actually never, ever putting your faith in anyone again? Some would say the answer's easy — you stay faithful to your partner.

Well, I think that's kind of being wise after the event. There are definitely people I wish I'd never met, and I wish I'd never placed any trust in. But as I say, unless you go through life expecting everyone to behave in the worst way that you could ever imagine, then, er, there's only so much you can do about it. A tabloid reader might think Deayton has some nerve to complain about betrayal of trust.

The story his former mistress sold in wasn't pretty: she said she joined him and Mayer on holiday at their Italian villa, where they would sneak off for sex, leaving an unsuspecting six-months-pregnant Mayer lying by the pool. She claimed he enjoyed a threesome with her and a friend the night before his son was born, and would often hire prostitutes to join them in bed when she was unable to satisfy his Olympian sexual appetite.

Deayton says that so many outrageous lies were printed, "it would take an entire book the length of War And Peace to actually unravel it all". But he declines to identify any — "I think it's too little too late, and I don't feel as if I really want to start unpicking it all" — so there's no way to judge his indignation, or to tell if his reticence really might be a rare celebrity example of wisdom and self-control.

And I don't think it should be me who does it. He did consider giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry , but didn't want to "regurgitate everything again". When I ask if he's been following the hearings, though, his face lights up. Yes, every day. And, to be honest, it's the tip of the iceberg, because phone hacking is horrendous and ghastly, but what about hacking into bank accounts and medical records, entrapment, blackmail, blagging your way into someone's house or making threatening phone calls to elderly relatives?

Deayton tried to stop his ex-mistress selling her story by taking out an injunction, and says criticism of gagging orders "is always dressed up as being about a woman's right to — but to what, though? To do with the story of her own life as she chooses, is usually the answer. I suppose it's technically anyone's right to do that, but you can't divorce the fact that they're making shedloads of money by doing it. And why would anyone," he adds with an expression of utter distaste, "want to do that?

It's impossible to know if Deayton was more sinned against than sinning. What comes across very clearly, however, is his assumption that most people believe he was. His reluctance to reopen the whole saga is entirely understandable, and probably very sensible. But in the absence of any actual rebuttal, I suspect many readers may infer from all his complaints about betrayal and intrusion not bad luck or injustice, but self-pity.

He looks taken aback, thinks for a moment and for once the air of ironic amusement gives way to a flash of real feeling. Well, OK. I would say that I've suffered a fair amount of punishment over the years, one way or another. Yes, I would plead guilty to having had an affair which I shouldn't have had. But it's not really anyone else's business than mine. No one is in my relationship, so they can't make judgments about my relationship. There was one two-night stand, and there was an affair.

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This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info. Angus Deayton was infamously sacked in as the suave, sarcastic and masterful host of BBC's Have I Got News For You after lurid stories emerged about his private life involving prostitutes, cocaine and, most damningly, an affair when his long-term girlfriend Lise Mayer was pregnant. Sixteen years later Deayton, 62, reveals for the first time how the long-running satirical current affairs panel show — which has used many guest hosts but never found a permanent replacement to match him — twice tried to lure him back to his old job.

But he responded with a firm no. Deayton, an unassuming, somewhat professorial, figure in a navy pullover, smiles with polite disdain as we meet over coffee in the rooftop bar of a London hotel.

My agent [dealt with it] and she knows what to say in those circumstances. I don't get involved. He doesn't even see it any more: "I've never watched it except when Michael Aspel was on once. I'm a big fan of his. Deayton patched things up with Mayer, 58, the scriptwriter who created The Young Ones and is the mother of his son Isaac, But it wasn't to last and the duo quietly went their separate ways four years ago after more than twenty years together.

It was a very friendly parting, insists Deayton, and they live virtually next door to each other in Islington, north London. They are focused on being devoted parents to Isaac, already a budding actor, on whom Deayton clearly dotes. Friends said the couple had long been leading separate lives.