Have you ever done a double take and wondered if you’d just seen someone off the telly?

It can happen in the oddest of places – not least Tesco Riverside or Asda Myrekirk for any Home Under the Hammer fans.

But I mean a proper star.

Was that Richard Gere walking down Reform Street? Helen Mirren in Primark?

The answer – unless on holiday in actual Hollywood and not Dundee – is invariably no.

Your taxi driver may well have a hint of Pacino, but he’s actually Davie from Downfield who’s not bad at the bowls.

So, when I passed someone who looked awfully like the actor Alan Cumming in our city centre, I doubted myself and carried on.

Alan Cumming’s story made me feel a little emotional

Actually, I double-took 13 times, then remembered he’d moved back to Scotland as the new boss of Pitlochry theatre and that it could be him.

By this time he’d disappeared and my moment to say hello had passed.

Whatever next? Ewan McGregor buying a doer-upper in the Carse of Gowrie? Brian Cox popping into the latest V&A launch?

As we know, these things have come to........

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