James Corden as Mr Darcy is more likely than a fat British politician taking high office | Catherine Bennett

Boris Johnson is only one of many striving to to shed the pounds to reach the very top

James Corden, the celebrity wit and actor, complains, with justice, of discrimination against “chubby” artists like himself.

They are never cast, straightforwardly, in romantic roles. A visiting alien could, he says, easily get the impression – supposing it relied on films for information – that “if you are chubby or fat or big, you never really fall in love, you never have sex”. He’s right. You’d need a heart of stone not to mourn the loss, assuming that more conventionally handsome actors can’t be made to step aside, of, say, James Corden’s Vronsky, James Corden’s Heathcliff and/or Mr Darcy, James Corden reminding us, in a remake of Brokeback Mountain, just how long audiences have had to tolerate the unconscionable tyranny, on screen, of the beautiful and muscular.

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