It was on a train on the way to the Edinburgh Festival that Caroline Quentin first met Paul Merton and he threw the book she was reading out the window. "I was sitting opposite him, reading.
Alec Guinness's autobiography, I think," the Strictly Come Dancing contestant once told the Independent. "I said I thought it was terrible.
He said he had read it and agreed. I said I didn't think I'd manage to finish it. He took it from me and threw it out of the window. 'That'll save you the trouble,' he said." The funny man and funny woman tied the knot in 1990 and were considered to be the hip, young king and queen of comedy, starring in The Live Bed Show in 1995.
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