Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans in North Devon

A CELEBRITY couple were believed be staying in North Devon at weekend.

Hornblower star Ioan Gruffudd and his actress wife Alice Evans who appears in hit US series Lost, visited a pub in Mortehoe on Saturday and Sunday with their baby daughter Ella Betsi who was born in September.

The couple enjoyed a drink in the Chichester Arms on Saturday and Mr Gruffudd asked staff for a recommended ale.

Barman Jamie Archer said: "They were very polite and friendly. I recommended Proper Job, an ale from St Austell."

Mr Gruffudd and his wife returned to the pub on Sunday and enjoyed lunch.

They reportedly asked to have a bar mat to take away as a memento.

Welsh-born Mr Gruffudd, 36, stars as Mister Fantastic in The Fantastic Four and also portrayed Tony Blair in the George Bush biographical film W.

Alice Evans, 38, is best known for the character Eloise Hawkings in Lost.