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Spooks' Rupert puckers up lips

By ONLINE REPORTER
February 17, 2007


SPOOKS' hunk Rupert Penry-Jones has admitted his on-screen snog with actress Sally Hawkins was one of the hottest smooches he's had to date.

The dashing actor confessed: "It was the best screen kiss I will ever do. It was great. I enjoyed it far too much."

Rupert and co-star Sally pucker up in ITV1's forthcoming adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion - their characters sharing a passionate kiss after years of secretly lusting after one another.

Rupert plays Captain Wentworth, a brooding Mr Darcy-type who is in love with Sally's dowdy character Anne Elliot.

But when father of two Rupert - who is married to actress Dervla Kirwan - is not sporting a cravatt and britches, he can be found hunting out criminals in the BBC's spy series Spooks.

And, for Rupert, it's one job he never wants to walk away from. He said: "Each series seems set to be the last, but I don't want to leave it. I'd like to see it through to the end. We don't know where it's going, we never do, I could end up playing Peter Firth's character!"