As the tortured but brilliant comic's marriage breaks up after five years, were his supermodel wife's racy pictures too much for camp David Walliams?

A few weeks later, around the release of the over-hyped bonkbuster Fifty Shades Of Grey, another set of pictures of Lara Stone were released by i-D magazine. Again chiefly naked, this time the supermodel was depicted getting to grips with actor Jamie Dornan, aka the movie’s eponymous hero Christian Grey.

What can her husband David Walliams have thought of it all? Yesterday, it appears, we got our answer as it emerged that their marriage is over, after a little less than five years. Lara Stone, 31, left the marital home in North London on Tuesday night, taking their 22-month-old son, Alfred, and their dog, Bert, with her.

Sources indicate that Walliams, 43, is ‘devastated’ that she has left him and is hoping against hope for a reconciliation. READ MORE