Article: Bob's your U.N.C.L.E. From the suave Napoleon Solo to the avuncular con man in Hustle, ROBERT VAUGHN has had an extraordinary acting career. But nothing is quite as remarkable as his own story - and the mystery of the boy who believed Robert was his father and grew up to marry Claudia Schiffer.

Byline: ALICE FOWLER

Desperation in his eyes, the man enters the church, lights a candle and hurries to the confessional.

'I'm not a churchgoer, Father,' he whispers. 'But you have got to help me.' On the other side of the grille, the priest listens intently as the man - a well-heeled gangster turned celebrity chef - confesses the dark secret that possesses him. As he bares his soul, the priest sits back - with the wolfishly triumphant grin of a con man who has found his latest victim.

Of course, as fans of the hit BBC drama Hustle will already have guessed, this is no ordinary 'priest'. Rather, it is Albert Stroller: the avuncular con man, ...