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It's elementary! BBC Sherlock Holmes actress Lara Pulver is single after separating from husband

By RICHARD KAY

Last updated at 7:41 AM on 4th January 2012

Doing the Splits: Lara Pulver who has separated from husband Joshua Dallas

Sultry actress Lara Pulver shocked the nation when she stripped off, clutching only a dominatrix whip in suggestive scenes, in the latest Sherlock Holmes series, which was screened by the BBC well before the 9pm watershed on New Year’s Day.

But while ten million viewers studied her naked charms, one person unlikely to do so in the future is her handsome husband, Hollywood actor Joshua Dallas, 30, who played warrior Fandral in Kenneth Branagh’s blockbuster sci-fi movie, Thor.

For sadly, I understand the couple have separated.

 

Their marital problems emerged after Joshua, a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, decided to reveal them in that most modern of fashions — on a U.S. radio talk show.

Asked whether he was married, he replied he was ‘single’ — despite his 2007 marriage to Lara.

They wed in a barn in Devon and  honeymooned in the Maldives.

Lara, 31, who appeared in TV’s Spooks last year, has previously spoken about her marriage to Joshua, revealing: ‘We try not to clip each other’s wings.

‘We give each other the freedom and space to go and pursue things — because I don’t see the point of being in a relationship to change someone or to be fearful and try to hold on.’

But perhaps, she gave him too much space . . .

Raunchy pre-watershed scenes: Lara Pulver, who plays Sherlock Holmes love interest Irene Adler strips off in this scene from the BBC adaptation

Love split: Lara Pulver, and her Hollywood actor husband Joshua Dallas, 30, have separated. They married in 2007