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The two men sat in the Oval Office and shook hands, a somewhat disorienting image given their history of volatile public feuds.

In May, Israel’s ambassador to the UN wrote to the secretary-general to complain about Syrian violations, including “armed presence in the area of separation” which “only heighten tensions in our already volatile region”.

Jones worked with leading rappers in the 80s, and in the 90s he recognised risks including a volatile rivalry that had begun to erupt between competing labels and stars.

Jones wrote in his now-out-of-print 2001 autobiography: "I had been concerned about the potentially volatile diversity of a group who'd never been in the same room together."

Reilly, who plays the troubled and volatile Beth Dutton, says she would "love" to keep playing her character, but any spin-off "would be a new beginning somewhere".