You know, sometimes - as a committed Depp fan - I’m torn. I want to see all the new pictures as soon as they arrive, but on the other hand, it’s not always in my best interest.

Take for example the upcoming movie Public Enemies. He’s busy shooting this one right now in various locations in the Midwest of America. This movie is reputedly the life story of John Dillinger, about whom I know precious little except that he was one of the Depression era gangsters, and I like it that way because I’m one of those people who hate to know the story before I see the movie. In other words, I hate spoilers.

Naturally, those fans lucky enough to be close to the chosen locations are going along with their mobile phones and their cameras and taking pictures. Many, many pictures. And occasionally, someone on the set itself will sneak one out. Now, here’s my problem - and it’s the studio’s problem too - sometimes, those ’sneaked off the set’ photos will give something away about the storyline. And I don’t want to know!

So here I am. On my friendly local Johnny Depp forum, I have made it quite clear - to the point of frightening half my friends to death - that I will be seriously pissed if I get to know anything about this movie before I see it.

And now they won’t show me anything much at all!

Oh, I’ve managed to see a few - and he looks as delicious as ever, despite being clean shaven - but I dare not go looking because I might see more than I bargained for.

So, I can’t show you a recent picture.

Dammit!

But so you won’t go away completely disappointed, up there is one I took earlier. At the London premiere for Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man’s Chest.