First for being Tony Blair's crony-in-chief - the pair go back 30 years when they were at neighbouring Scottish public schools and, later, Wandsworth flatmates.
In later scenes, the flatmates are all made to look older with wigs and make-up – and, in Ingleby's case, a moustache.
But flatmates in later life?
In return, a week later, my east London flatmates received a postcard direct from the desert.
Kerouac came to live with her and her flatmate, Joan Vollman, who later married Burroughs and was shot by him, when a drinking game went wrong, in 1951.
They started their own games business and, though one later dropped out, the other flatmate, Steve Jackson, became a lifelong friend and collaborator.
She later marries her brother's flatmate Spike.
Here, he settles down with his bachelor friend Razors, and later with two young women flatmates.
I arrived at freshers' week two days later than all of my flatmates, due to a family memorial service.
Seymour-Jones suggests that he went cruising at night, but the evidence for this is a remark, many years later, by one of the flatmates: "Well, he would hardly have spent that period living with us if he had not had some leanings, now would he?" This seems rather thin corroboration.
Her first hit series, The Liver Birds, was about the lives and loves of posh Sandra (in the first series played by Pauline Collins, later by Nerys Hughes) and her flatmate, Beryl (played by Polly James).
