Imogen Stubbs sees her life come full circle One of the attractions of Jonathan Guy Lewis, the Soldier Soldier star with whom Imogen Stubbs begun a relationship after the break-up of her marriage to Sir Trevor Nunn, was that he gave the actress the opportunity to renew her acquaintance with the Thames, upon which she spent what she called a "Huckleberry Finn" childhood. "Somehow - 30 years later - I find myself back where I began," says Stubbs, coyly. So much has changed since my childhood, but, incredibly, this stretch of the river seems to sing the same song. Stubbs, 51, set up home with Lewis, 48, last summer in a property overlooking the stretch of river in Chiswick, west London, where she and her brother, Rupert, were brought up aboard a wooden sailing barge called Cetus. "My spirit leaps every morning when I look onto an ever-changing landscape - not traffic, or buildings, or twitching curtains," she says. The actress adds that people thought her parents were "stupefyingly irresponsible" to bring her and her brother up in the barge which had rats in the bilges, silverfish in the bath and a dustbin bag as a lavatory when they acquired it. Lewis left his wife, the actress Miranda Foster, for Stubbs, who had previously lived not far away with Sir Trevor. In 2009, Stubbs had gamely joined in my campaign to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Chiswick flyover by Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield. Stubbs unveiled a plaque on which was written Mansfield's verdict on the stretch of raised motorway: "It's a sweet little flyover.""