Mortimer dumped for playing a joke on her boyfriend

10-07-2008 14:01

Actress Emily Mortimer has been dumped by her Russian lover after shaving his moustache off whilst he was asleepMortimer studied Russian at Oxford University and perfected the language by spending time in the country, where she fell in love with a local artist called Dennis.The romance derailed when she grew sick of the facial hair he had cultivated for more than a decade. The Pink Panther actress explains, "He had a very bushy moustache. I didn't like it, so we got very drunk one night, he passed out and I shaved it off. He woke up and was so upset he cried. He had it since he was 14."