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	Tall, Scottish and handsome

The heavy Scottish brogue singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to me across the telephone line belongs to Gerard Butler, star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and the winsome new Scottish drama Dear Frankie. Butler's rendition of the birthday ditty is charming, but really, he shouldn't have. After all, it is not my birthday.

As it turns out, while the Miramax publicist was putting me through on one line, the effervescent Butler was making another call on the other line. "I've been sitting in front of a camera and by a phone all day and I haven't had a second to do anything,” he explains with a laugh. “So I'm calling my ex-girlfriend, whose birthday is today.”