Daily Mail
Who inspired Rivals' Rupert Campbell Black? Jilly Cooper reveals the high-society men behind her bed-hopping lothario
...character of ex Olympian show jumper turned Tory MP Rupert Campbell Black is played by British actor Alex Hassell, and from the opening scenes of the eight-part adaptation of Jilly Cooper's 1988 book, RBC's libido...audience - and around 20 minutes later they're shown a lot more, when the super-stud is interrupted while playing tennis in the buff with his friend's buxom wife.
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