Don't text so close to me

TV types were much in evidence at the Hard Rock Calling gig in London's Hyde Park last night, broadcast live on Virgin Radio, where the Police, the Stranglers and KT Tunstall kept the masses entertained. Monkey bumped into ITV's director of entertainment and comedy Paul Jackson and the BBC's creative head of comedy Kenton Allen. But with due respect to those two chaps, Monkey's real highlight was a poorly disguised Simon Pegg, who appeared to spend more of The Police's set texting on his mobile phone than he did listening to Sting and the other 50-somethings rattling through what might turn out to be their last-ever gig. We're sure Sting is a big Shaun of the Dead fan.