Kate Rodgers of consultancy HumourUs is to treat delegates at the National Housing Federation conference to a session on humour at work.

But you might be interested to find that her husband’s job involves drug-dealing and terrorising GPs. That’s because he’s an actor on BBC daytime soap Doctors, where his performance as a hostage-taking drug runner almost won him the title Soap Villain of the Year. He is also known as the barman from ITV’s Fat Friends. But social housing figures in his working life too – he will be appearing in the second series of council estate drama Shameless.