'Get yourself tucked up': Tom Hardy reads Valentine's Day bedtime story on CBeebies

Adults across the nation have confessed to switching over to children's TV channel CBeebies to listen to a bedtime story read by Tom Hardy.

The Hammersmith-born actor delighted viewers as he read Tom McLaughlin's 'The Cloudspotter', a tale about a lonely little boy who makes best friends with a dog.

In the show broadcast on Valentine's Day, Hardy was joined in his rooftop nook by his own pet dog and "best friend" for a second time after his appearance on the BBC channel in December.

It's safe to say excitement levels among viewers were soaring.

It may not be the last fans will hear of Hardy's soft story-time tones. As he came to the end of his story, the Mad Max star teased:

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