Aug 14, 2026 – 5.00amA few days before my lunch date with Australian actor Christopher Chung – best known as the likeably obnoxious Roddy Ho from Slow Horses – there’s a hiccup. Chung can’t make lunch due to some last-minute shooting so can we push back to afternoon tea instead?So high noon becomes high tea. At Chung’s suggestion we meet in the five-star surrounds of the West End’s Peninsula Hotel, across the road from the back fence of Buckingham Palace.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Andrew TillettEurope correspondentAndrew Tillett is The Australian Financial Review’s correspondent for Europe, based in London. He was formerly foreign affairs and defence correspondent based in Canberra.Fetching latest articles
Scones with jam and cream: Why this Aussie actor is still also a PT
Christopher Chung features in the new ‘My Brilliant Career’ and is well known from the hit series ‘Slow Horses’, yet he’s still getting sweaty with clients in the gym.
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