The actor was walking near his West London home at 10am and lashed out when a photographer asked if he could take his picture.

The star allegedly kicked him three times and kneed him near the groin. Photographer Ian Whittaker, 43, said: ‘I asked him to smile because he was standing with his head down. But he must have been having a bad day because he started chasing me down the street.

‘He gave me a couple of kicks in the legs ...