Geoff Hoon: the new Ben Affleck

Sam Coates at The Times reports from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in DC last week (“where the President and Washington press corps show Hollywood what self-congratulation is all about”).  Along with “Ben Affleck, Colin Powell, Pamela Anderson, Henry Kissinger, Marcia Cross, Jenny McCarthy and other A-listers”, the guest list also included British Government Chief Whip Geoff Hoon and his special adviser:

According to one witness, they walked down the middle of the red carpet of the Washington Hilton, and about 200 teenage girls and boys behind police barriers started screaming. The informant claims Geoff thought this is for him and his special adviser, looks bemused and poses for the cameras. He fails to notice Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner right behind. Sadly the Hoon pictures haven’t made the international wires…