Actor Sean Bean threw a glass at his wife after she poured wine in his lap during a drunken first class bust-up on a British Airways flight, it has been claimed.

The former Game of Thrones star, 60, is said to have become enraged with his partner Ashley Moore, 33, after the pair downed free alcohol on a nine-hour flight from Vancouver to Heathrow over the weekend.

Both are thought to have been in good spirits when they boarded the flight but as they continued to down drinks an argument erupted in the cabin.

Sean Bean exchanged vows with Moore, who at 33 is 26-years his junior, in 2017 after a five-year relationship that began with 'a chance meeting' in his favourite North London pub (pictured together in 2018)

Sean Bean with his wife about to board a flight to Florence, Italy earlier this year for the premiere of Medici series two

A insider told The Sun: 'The row escalated when Ashley suddenly reached across and poured her full, large glass of white wine into Sean's lap.

'It was incendiary and he snapped. It caused Sean to jump up and shout.

'He was in scruffy jogging bottoms and looked a mess. At that point, in a rage, he then hurled his glass at her.'

A member of cabin crew is said to have stepped in to defuse the situation.

When they landed the pair were taken away in a VIP buggy and police were not called.

The actor had been in Vancover to star in the second series of Snowpiercer - a television adaptation of the 2013 South Korean-Czech film of the same name.

Sean Bean's representatives have been approached for comment.

Last year, Sean Bean admitted he is open to the prospect of having more children after finally settling with his fifth wife, former actress Ashley Moore.

The celebrated actor exchanged vows with Moore, who at 33 is 26-years his junior, in 2017 after a five-year relationship that began with 'a chance meeting' in his favourite North London pub.

But he admits four previous marriages, from which he has fathered three daughters, has not dissuaded him from considering a fourth child, and his first with his Moore, as he enters his 60th year.

Weighing up the possibility of more children, he told The Times: ‘Possibly, yes. With Ashley, yeah. That would be nice, that.’

The former Game of Thrones star, 60, is said to have become enraged with his partner Ashley Moore, 33, after the pair downed free alcohol on a nine-hour British Airways flight from Vancouver to Heathrow over the weekend (file image)

Bean's relationship with his wife began unexpectedly, with the pair making an immediate connection after meeting in Belize Park bar The Cobden Arms, a stones' throw from his former home in the affluent London suburb.

'She was there with friends and I came in with my friend and it was just a chance meeting,' he recalled. 'I used to go in there now and again, but it was the first time she'd ever been in. We kind of hit it off.'

While Moore's 'optimism and vibrancy' has helped change his life, the actor says advancing age has also given him the ability to look back at his previous relationships with a greater degree of maturity.

'You know, you look back on things and and think, "Maybe I should have done that in a different way. Maybe I wouldn't have done that. I'd do that differently now."

'But then again, you're a lot younger, they're different times and you think, "Would I have done that? Would I really do it any differently?"'

Bean's first marriage to school sweetheart Debra James, a hairdresser, came in 1981, when he was just 21.

However it crumbled soon after he moved to London a short time later to study at RADA, where fell in love with fellow student Melanie Hill.

Last year, Sean Bean admitted he is open to the prospect of having more children after finally settling with his fifth wife, former actress Ashley Moore (pictured together in 2018)

Sean (pictured) famously lost his head as Ned Stark in HBO's medieval fantasy phenomenon, Game Of Thrones

The actress, who starred in the classic sitcom Bread, became his second wife in 1990. The couple have two daughters together, Lorna and Molly.

Their marriage lasted seven years and soon after their split, the star confirmed he was dating actress Abigail Cruttenden, who he met on the set of ITV series Sharpe.

The couple married in November 1997 and their daughter Evie was born the following year; however, they split when their baby was only a few months old.

He married for the fourth time, to actress Georgina Sutcliffe at Marylebone Register Office in February 2008 but their marriage lasted for just two years.

The pair met five years previously in 2003 when she was managing the bar at a West End theatre where Bean was playing Macbeth.

They shared a house in Belsize Park, north London, but are thought to have separated during the first year of their marriage before reuniting. Two years later they divorced, citing ‘irreconcilable differences.'

In 2011 the actor said that he had finally given up on marriage, saying he preferred spending his time gardening.