Well, that was a shocker – huw knew? My dough had been on that bonkers little tranny child who had appeared on Antiques Roadshow, but he was quickly ruled out.

He’s been in an induced coma for several weeks, which given the current trajectory of current affairs seems a sound strategy.

Today in court, it transpired that Kevin Spacey likes to be known as ‘K-Dog’. That even tops the revelation that Justin Lee Collins used to make his ex document her relationship history in ‘the pukka pad’.

It’s all crud. Huw cares?

Anyway, back on the plot, once gooey Huwie had been outed by his good lady wife, several of the hitherto misidentified presenters had a mumble on Twitter about suing people for libel.

One of them, Jeremy Vine, noted that a lawyer had proffered advice  that one tweet naming him would garner £20k in damages.

Ding dong!

Let’s face it, Jezza’s only interested in interfering with petrolhead gimps while wearing a GoPro on a pole, so he seemed an unlikely pick for Auntie Beeb’s twilight twanger.

That lawyerly advice about mega compo did however rather seem off-beam, and that’s probably because it came from a lawyer. After all, you won’t pop in to see your GP on the way back from Tesco for a heart bypass, will you?

Even the specialist libel lawyers haven’t got it nailed.

But as soon as Huw had been outed, the gossip train ran out of steam. A day or so speculation was not likely to amount to serious harm, which is the raised bar that libel courts have adopted for the last ten years or so, mainly as a filter for tedious spats.

So, while the false statement was undoubtedly defamatory, the fact that it was proven untrue to the world a very short time later makes a £20k bonanza as likely as a female penis. More likely sorted out with contrite letters and a donation to charity.

Mind you, some of these oddballs do like to have their day in court, which on occasions does lose them a house or two. In these cases, it’s not the defamation that does their legs, but the court’s disapproval of tossers who needlessly run up costs.

At the end of the day, though – huw cares?