Anne Diamond's estrang- ed husband was at the centre of a fresh intrigue today after he was joined by a mystery woman for a London film premiere.

Mike Hollingsworth walked out of the home he shared with 44-year-old Anne and their four sons in Cuddesdon, near Wheatley, after dating Virgin radio DJ Harriet Scott.

He split from the DJ after an unexplained incident in which he was charged with failing to provide a drink-drive breath test earlier this month. He had driven to a police station sporting a black eye to report a domestic incident.

But as Harriet's show went out last night, he was fleeing photographers trying to snap him in London with a mystery woman. Hollingsworth, 52, refused to give the name of his companion as he left the Odeon, Leicester Square, after a screening of Warren Beatty's new film, Bulworth.

He paused only to ask the woman, who was dressed in a black coat and sported shoulder-length brunette hair, if she was all right as the pair marched through the crowd outside the cinema to be ushered into a restaurant and bar in nearby Leicester Place.

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