Rufus Hound takes his work seriously. Given that the formerly flamboyantly-moustached comedian best-known until recently as a panellist on Keith Lemon's abrasively smutty ITV2 game-show, Celebrity Juice, has just taken over the exhausting lead role in One Man, Two Guvnors, such dedication to his craft is probably a good thing. Richard Bean's 1960s-set adaptation of Goldoni's eighteenth century comic romp, The Servant of Two Masters, after all, all but reinvented a tireless James Corden when he originated the role of underworld stooge Francis Henshall in National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner's production. With Welsh actor Owain Griffiths having stepped into Corden's sizeable shoes on the West End, Hound's appearance in the touring version of One Man, Two Guvnors, which arrives in Glasgow next week, might potentially open up similar doors for Hound. Especially now he's quit Celebrity Juice to appear in another stage play, Utopia, a
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