Does Sir Sean Connery have a long-lost brother he’s previously failed to acknowledge?
According to the James Bond star’s newly published memoirs, Connery’s mother adopted a boy called Donald during the second world war.
A cracking revelation, you might think – except it’s not true. Some complain that Connery’s book, called Being a Scot, is littered with factual errors because the actor didn’t contribute any of the writing.
Instead, Connery dictated memories of his early years in Edinburgh to co-author Murray Grigor in between rounds of golf.
This inevitably led to inaccuracies creeping in – which Connery appears not to have checked before publication. It was, in fact, his maternal grandmother who adopted a son.
