The Bill star 67, looks totally unrecognisable with bushy beard on shopping trip with mystery woman
THE Bill fans know Jeff Stewart for playing PC Reg Hollis for over a thousand episodes.
But very few would notice him on a recent day out - with dark glasses and a long grey beard.
The actor - who appeared in the ITV drama from 1984 to 2008 - was seen with a female companion in London.
He was photographed wearing gloves and a long cream overcoat on a stroll through the capital in our exclusive pictures.
As Reg, TV favourite Jeff, 67, is one of the most enduring characters from The Bill.
He appeared alongside Graham Cole's PC Tony Stamp and Mark Wingett's character DC Jim Carver.
But the dark, slicked-back hair we remember from his spot behind the desk at Sun Hill police station were nowhere to be seen.
Following his departure from the show, Jeff starred in 2009's Dead Man Running, 2010's Tomorrow and Under Jakob's Ladder in 2011 - where he managed to bag himself Best Actor at the Manhattan Film Festival.
Speaking about leaving the drama, he said: "I didn’t see a counsellor, it was evident I was OK and I never worried how it would affect my career.
“I thought, ‘I have a choice, you can either stagnate or blossom.”
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The Bill launched on ITV in 1983 but was axed in 2010, after running for an incredible 26 series.
The show, set in the fictional Sun Hill in London, became the longest-running police procedural drama in Britain.
It helped launch the careers of Keira Knightley, David Tennant, James Mcavoy, Sean Bean and David Walliams.
Now the show is set to return, with The Sun revealing this year that a new version, which would air on UKTV, is in the works and could air this year.
