Aidan Turner won’t be stirred on James Bond rumours

When Aidan Turner put in another head-turning performance in BBC One’s chilling TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None last year, the Irish actor did little to quash the Bond rumour mill.

But while he’s keeping strictly schtum on the soap opera of who will play 007, he will gladly talk about the impressive body of work that has, in the last year, catapulted him to new heights.

With audience numbers for Poldark — which sees Turner take centre stage as brooding hero Ross Poldark — peaking at 9.4m, alongside scooping the Radio Times Audience Award at this year’s Baftas, Turner made light work of its 2015 debut.