Child whisperer: Colin Firth

It’s a gift we all crave – the ability to calm children during stressful scenarios in daily life.

Actor Colin Firth may have done just that, when he “calmed his children” during a mid-air fight which broke out en-route to London.

The 51-year-old British actor was on his way back from the Oscars in Los Angeles – where he presented the gong for Best Actress to Meryl Streep – when two people are said to have started attacking each other over an alleged theft.

Cabin crew on the British Airways flight called ahead for back up and armed police stormed the plane as soon as it landed at Heathrow airport.

But an eyewitness said the King’s Speech actor ignored the chaos and focused on reassuring his sons Luca (10), and Matteo (8), as well as wife Livia (42).