It appears that the reporters at The Daily Express can’t understand the difference between what’s real and what’s not as they’ve mistakenly reported Richard as “retired from the film industry.” This, of course, is not the case but I’ll let REG speak in his own voice:

I have not “retired” – this came about as a joke. I was pestered about stuff by The Daily Express tabloid at a charity function two nights ago and kidded them that I had retired and two nano-seconds later, it’s in print. Not true.

Anyway, for those of you who may have missed the Daily Express article you can read it here.