A very cunning plan: Blackadder star, Tony Robinson, 64, to wed lover aged 30

Teaming up: Tony Robinson, 64, is to marry Louise Hobbs, 30, in Ravello on Italy's Amalfi Coast next weekend

It wasn’t that long ago he declared he would never marry again.

But Tony Robinson is finally preparing to tie the knot with his young lover – more than two-and-a-half years after getting engaged.

The 64-year-old former Blackadder star is to marry Louise Hobbs, 30, in Ravello on Italy’s Amalfi Coast next weekend.

The actor, who now presents Channel 4 archaeology series Time Team, raised eyebrows when he began dating Miss Hobbs in 2004.

As well as being half his age, she is also two years younger than Robinson’s daughter Laura and five years younger than his son, Luke. Even Miss Hobbs’s mother, Pamela, is four years younger than the presenter.

In 1992 Robinson left Mary Shepherd – his wife of 20 years and the mother of his two children – for 35-year-old singer-songwriter Teri Bramah. And in 1994 he vowed never to wed again, calling marriage ‘a nonsense’.