Meet the real-life 'hot priest': Married vicar's rugged good looks wins him 116,500 Instagram followers and comparisons with Fleabag hunk Andrew Scott
by James Gant For Mailonline- Rev Christopher Lee, 36, from west London, posts '60-second sermons' his fans
- The married father of two adamant they follow him for the power of the gospels
- Yet barrels of female fans post comments such as 'I love you' under his pictures
- The vicar at St Saviour's Church finds comparisons to Scott's role embarrassing
Actor Andrew Scott made priests hot during his sensual role as a cleric in hit-TV show Fleabag earlier this year.
And now a real-life vicar has amassed more than 100,000 Instagram followers - apparently due to his good looks.
Rev Christopher Lee, 36, from west London, posts '60-second sermons' to his 116,500 fans.
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The married father of two daughters is adamant they follow him for the power of the gospels and not due to his appearance.
Yet barrels of female followers post comments such as 'I love you' and 'you just keep blowing my mind' as well as putting numerous love heart emojis under his pictures.
He told the Times: 'It's never a horrible thing to be told you're good-looking, but I think most people follow me because of my content, because I speak to them on a deeper level.'
Rev Lee, who has been vicar at St Saviour's Church for four years, added: 'We get people every week saying they found us on Instagram.'
But he finds the comparisons to Scott's character embarrassing and thinks it is just due to his age.
He told iNews last month: 'Priests traditionally are a little bit heavy, a little bit old and a little bit distant, and I am, I think, none of those things.'
Scott's character was introduced in the second series of the show after he was brought in to officiate Fleabag's father and his second wife's wedding - and sparks immediately flew between the two of them.
The sequel series ended with Fleabag and the Priest going their separate ways during a tearful goodbye at a bus stop.
When Rev Lee was 21, he was working in business and had a house and a mortgage.
But he decided to teach English in Tanzania and armed himself with a Bible as his main tool.
After becoming engaged by his reading about God, he did a distance-learning degree to make him a priest.
Aged 24 he was ordained a deacon in the diocese of Mount Kilimanjaro.
The Church of England is trying to bolster its presence online and will today launch an app for Google Home smart speaker.
The app will allow users to ask the device to say grace before meals as well as pray before bed.