Jamie: I get sad in my job

JAMIE Oliver has revealed his work has made him miserable and lonely.

The TV chef, 42, said: “I don’t know if I’d prescribe my career to anyone else.”

He added: “I’ve been pretty miserable. It isn’t nice. I don’t say I have regrets, but it’s complex...

“If you were sensitive you’d cry your eyes out. It’s quite a lonely place.”

The star, said to have earned €11million from Sainsbury ads, told Radio Times: “It still does get to me about once a year.” The Secretary of State for War first saw Christine as she swam naked in a pool at Lord Astor’s Cliveden country estate.

Despite his being married to British film star Valerie Hobson, a torrid affair began. When rumours of this began to leak, Profumo initially denied them in parliament and personally to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, saying: “There was no impropriety whatsoever.”

It was a statement which led to his downfall three months later, when Christine confessed all to the press. Profumo was forced to resign from the Cabinet in 1963.

Son of an Italian baron in a Sardinian family, Profumo Christine’s friend and housemate at the time of the affair seems to be the only one to survive the scandal unscathed, actually using her notoriety to her benefit.

The model and club dancer was responsible for the scandal’s most famous quote.

During one court case she was told that Viscount Astor had denied her claim that he had sex with her, to which she summed up the injustice of society by replying: “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?”

Mandy managed to prosper after the Profumo affair, becoming a professional singer, He was the osteopath and society painter, 30 years older than Christine, who was responsible for introducing her to many of her lovers – including Profumo and the Soviet spy.

Ward met her at Murray’s, the club where she danced. Their relationship was platonic, and

Christine referred to him as a

“father figure”.

Yet she claimed he took a great, twisted delight in introducing her and dancer pal

Mandy to rich men he felt would be influential.

The young women were pretty much his gifts as a “society fixer”.

After the Profumo scandal broke, Ward was accused of pimping out He was the Russian naval attache and spy Christine was simultaneously having an affair with, resulting in fears state secrets could have been shared between the sheets.

Christine later claimed she had been involved in a spying ring.

But, in truth, prudish

British society seemed more appalled by the sex scandal than a potential breach of national security.

Ivanov’s friendship with

Profumo apparently led him to succeed in photographing highly classified Us-produced specifications for the X-15 – a top-secret, experimental, high-altitude spy plane.

It is also claimed he was able to joined the Army in 1939 and ended the Second World War a brigadier. He was once Britain’s youngest MP, entering the Commons aged 25 in 1940.

Yet despite his start as a rising star in the Tory Party, Profumo was never able to rebuild his political career after the scandal, and for a year he did nothing. But his wife forgave him, and he attempted to regain respectability by committing his life to charity work. He worked unpaid at Toynbee Hall in East London, with alcoholics and the homeless. He became president of the charity, and was appointed a CBE in 1975. Profumo died aged 91 following a stroke in 2006. actress and businesswoman. She said: “As far as I’m concerned, the Profumo affair was just a pimple.

“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”

She married three times, once to an Israeli businessman, with whom she had a daughter. The couple opened a string of successful nightclubs and restaurants in Tel Aviv called Mandy’s, Mandy’s Candies and Mandy’s Singing Bamboo.

She had a number of acting roles, including an appearance in comedy Absolutely Fabulous, with Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders.

Mandy died of cancer in 2014, aged 70. Christine and other women, and he was convicted in 1963. But the night before the verdict he took an overdose and died days later, aged 50.

His family have since argued he was used as a scapegoat, and prejudicial reporting skewed the case.

They have lobbied for the case to go to the Court of Appeal posthumously – a plea denied because the original transcript of the judge’s summing up has been lost. Recently, legal historians and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Stephen Ward have focused on the unfairness of his trial. But this is all too late for Ward, who paid the price of the Profumo affair with his life. photograph secret documents relating to US tactical nuclear weapons, and crucial allied contingency plans for the Cold War defence of Berlin.

In his memoirs, Ivanov said he only slept with Christine because she was a “bimbo” and had not bothered to tell his bosses about her.

By the time the scandal broke in 1963, Ivanov had been recalled to the Soviet Union and posted to the Soviet Black Sea fleet.

But the revelations led to his wife Maya leaving him. He suffered depression and turned to drink.

He was found dead in his apartment in Moscow in 1994, aged 68, having drunk himself to death.