Your trusted Diarist is often whisked along to lavish drinksand-canapes bashes with some of the finest legal talent the City has to offer, but it isn’t every day he comes across a bona fide star of the small screen.

Of course, this week was no exception, but your Diarist did come as close as he ever has to rubbing shoulders with television royalty when Jeremy Clarkson was spotted sashaying among the guests at one such evening affair.