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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Girl who broke Cumberbatch's heart to wed Sherlock actor

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 20:00 EST, 20 October 2015 | Updated: 01:49 EST, 21 October 2015

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She is the woman who broke Benedict Cumberbatch’s heart —and now she’s engaged to a more handsome Sherlock Holmes actor, nine years his junior.

I can reveal Olivia Poulet, 37-year-old star of The Thick Of It, has found lasting love with Laurence Dobiesz (inset), 30, who appeared in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes film A Game Of Shadows as an Austrian maitre d’.

TV Sherlock star Cumberbatch dated Poulet for ten years until 2011, but their relationship is said to have cooled after he said he wanted children.

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Olivia Poulet, the woman who broke Benedict Cumberbatch's heart, left, is engaged to Sherlock Holmes actor Laurence Dobiesz, right

Though the split was, at the time, said to be ‘amicable’, close friends claimed last night it was Olivia who called time on Cumberbatch.

Poulet met Cumberbatch at the University of Manchester, where both studied drama, and they later shared a home in Hampstead, North London.

Benedict told of his wish to be a dad in 2010: ‘I have been broody for five years,’ he said. ‘The big question is “When?” I think I’d like it before I’m 35 . . . I would love to have the ability to juggle a career and have a young child.’

Cumberbatch married 37-year-old theatre director Sophie Hunter, pictured, in February this year, and she gave birth to their son in June

Following their separation, the Old Harrovian actor went on to star in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Colin Firth, and his film career took off.

Poulet was born in Putney, South-West London, into a high-achieving family. Her mother is a judge and her, brother, Jamie, a neuroscientist. Two years ago, she disclosed she was dating another actor (‘I seem to have a taste for them’) whom she declined to name.

Cumberbatch married 37-year-old theatre director Sophie Hunter in February this year, and she gave birth to their son in June. After her split with Cumberbatch, Poulet was never keen to talk about her ex. ‘We are absolutely grand and adore each other, but it’s just difficult if every interview is about me going out with Benedict,’ she said.

Darcey's on a very Strictly budget...

Darcey Bussell, who stepped out in public wearing the same £765 Marchesa dress that she worn on Strictly two nights before

Strictly Come Dancing judge Darcey Bussell never fails to look glamorous on the show — but the former ballerina admits that she has to provide her own outfits.

‘I have to supply all my own clothes. I try to persuade designers to lend them to me, though I can’t really publicise them on the BBC,’ says Darcey, 46.

That must explain why she once stepped out in public in the exact same £765 Marchesa dress that she’d worn on Strictly two nights before.

Hollywood loves a lunatic. Actor Peter Sarsgaard — married to Maggie Gyllenhaal — wants to star as crackpot conspiracy theorist David Icke.

‘I’ve always wanted to play English soccer player Icke, who dropped out of soccer suddenly and said he had found something called the “truth vibrations”,’ says Sarsgaard, overlooking Icke’s interim as a BBC sports presenter.

‘I love the idea of somebody dropping out of something successful to do something so ethereal and esoteric.’

Has Sadie confessed all her sins?

Sadie Frost, who posted a picture to Instagram showing how she stopped off to pray inside a church in Venice while on holiday in Italy

Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll is just the tip of the iceberg for party-loving actress Sadie Frost, whose friendship with Kate Moss and marriage to lothario Jude Law make her seem beyond redemption.

But the 50-year-old seems eager to turn over a new leaf — because, while on a romantic getaway this week with her new boyfriend, stylist Marcus Love, Sadie stopped off in Venice to pray inside a church.

Sharing the moment on Instagram, she writes: ‘Confession in Venice.’

But it’s not all change for Sadie, who remained true to her dark side by sporting a long black coat, black boots and a nautical-themed cap, which prompted Love to compare her to ‘Captain Birdseye’. How romantic.