A TV star who won global fame after having sex with her partner for Britain’s first graphic sex education video in the nineties has revealed how her life in the celebrity world spun out of control after she began spending £70,000 a year on cocaine.
Wendy-Ann Paige, now 58, was Only 28, she was the only one who made it big after appearing in The Lover’s Guide: Britain’s. first explicit video to gain an 18 certificate in 1991.
It quickly became the most popular sex title worldwide, with 1.3 million copies sold alone in the UK. The controversial 18-certificate allowed the book to be sold in High Street stores.
But after being taken on by late publicist Max Clifford and getting a taste for the fast life – partying with the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jon Bon Jovi, Wendy-Ann’s world spun out of control when she developed a drug habit and PTSD, before eventually divorcing her husband and ending up in a small flat in Southend.
Wendy Ann Paige (now 58) was 28 years old when she entered the limelight after appearing in The Lover’s Guide in Britain. This was Britain’s first ever explicit video to be awarded an 18 certificate.
Wendy was a marketing director when she met married Tony Duffield, then 36, in 1989.
He and his ex-wife, a band sound engineer, were looking for couples to be featured in a video. But Wendy quickly caught Tony’s attention and the pair agreed to share the role. Tony left his wife and their child to go to Wendy.
Remembering how she had to audition by masturbating on the floor of the video’s expert doctor Andrew Stanway’s Surrey mansion, Wendy told The Sun how she was ‘a natural’ and had no problem romping for the camera.
The actress revealed that the “real life” scenes were recorded on a Studio set in Acton in West London. She said, “It was a closed studio, but people were photographing fashionwear in nearby rooms, so I walked in and saw what the fuss was all about.” It was eight hours of pleasure for me while they film.
This video was the best-selling sex title in the world, selling 1.3 million copies worldwide. It also sold well in the UK where the controversial 18 certificate made it possible to sell in high-street stores.
Tony and Wendy had even sex on a gravestone. in North London’s Highgate Cemetery – a scene that was cut from the video.
“She revealed that she was a proud mother of three.This was insane. People would stop me in Asda and say, ‘My wife won’t wear heels in bed — is she a prude?’ People would stop me in Asda and ask me if I was a prude. I’d say that I don’t know. I just want to buy dog food, but I could spend hours giving advice.
After starring in The Lover’s Guide, Britain’s first explicit film to earn an 18 certificate in 1991, she was in the limelight.
Wendy remembers how she was comfortable having sex with the camera and wasn’t nervous about it. Wendy soon became the most popular author in Sextrology, 1994.
This newly-acclaimed expert in sex was now making thousands of dollars a year, and was partying with stars like Michael Douglas at celebrity-studded events around the world.
In 1992 she married Tony in Las Vegas on her way to playing poker with Jack Nicholson – an event she missed for the whirlwind wedding.
The pair moved into a £1million, 18-room house in East Sussex, but as Wendy’s fame grew, their marriage began to suffer.
With Tony reportedly ‘unable’ to keep her with her rampant sexual appetite, Wendy says she replaced sex with cocaine.
“It was more fun to do cocaine than it was to have sex with Tony,” she said. At one point I was spending £70k a year on it — that’s not including the drugs the rock stars gave me,’ she said.
Tony got Wendy to go to Thailand was opened a restaurant in Thailand by him and he brought Thailand home in 1999. But the marriage fell apart the year after that. He filed for divorce in 2006.
From her Southend apartment she spoke:I live a very different life now. My old life is what I treasure. I am not recognized by people anymore, because things have changed drastically.
“I am single, and I’m looking for the one.” I will tell him my history when I meet the man I want.
Wendy was reminded of how much she loved having sex with the cameras (seen), and that was what made her ‘never anxious’. She soon became the author and best-selling Sextrology, 1994.