James Norton is bonding with a family of gangsters

James Norton dodges the 007 rumours as he tells Gemma Dunn about his role in crime drama McMafia, which begins on BBC One tonight

EMERGING from the shallows in a pair of swimming trunks, sipping on cocktails in a tux and jetting around the globe in pursuit of bad guys, James Norton is doing little to derail the Bond rumour mill.

But he insists his latest brooding role in new BBC One drama McMafia is far from an intended audition.