Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Labour MPs caught up in union boss ‘time bomb’
Aidan top as 62% of women think of another man in bed
SIGH aye, cap’n! British women admit fantasising about other men in bed – with TV’s Captain Poldark one of their top choices.
Research found 62 per cent visualise someone other than their partner, with actor Aidan Turner one of their top choices.
Irishman Turner, 36, is famed for his shirtless displays as Poldark in the BBC1 drama set in 18th century Cornwall.
Others who get women’s minds wandering are 007 star Daniel Craig, fellow actor Brad Pitt and soccer’s David
Beckham. Superfit model David Gandy and Canadian singer Justin Bieber also pop into women’s heads.
HANKERING
The same survey also found that 56 per cent of men think about someone other than their partner.
Top fantasies include singers Rihanna, Katy Perry and Rita Ora, along with actresses
Michelle Keegan and Kate Beckinsale. And some confessed to hankering after Madonna – who is 61. But they didn’t say whether she was singing Like A Virgin.
Both men and women admitted having naughty thoughts about work colleagues, porn stars and the partners of their friends.
The findings were uncovered in a poll for love match site saucydates.com. Boss David Minns said: “Men and women are both guilty of thinking of someone else.
“I wonder how many couples are both thinking of different people at the same time?”
Poldark’s fifth series ended last year. Sadly for Turner’s army of fans, he is seeing US actress Caitlin Fitzgerald, star of Channel 4’s Masters of Sex.
But the actor will be back on our screens soon as Leonardo Da Vinci in a TV series based on the Renaissance genius.
Ooh... that could be a real moaner, Lisa.
AN investigation into the conduct of a top union boss has planted a “time bomb” under Labour.
GMB general secretary Tim Roache, 57, quit suddenly after an internal letter circulated accusing him of improper behaviour.
Ordering the independent probe, union president Barbara Plant vowed to protect its staff, saying the safety of “our people, particularly women” is of “paramount importance”.
It is expected to entangle some senior MPs and union and party officials in what one described as “a scandalprimed time bomb”.
SISTERS
The anonymous letter, signed from “GMB sisters”, made a number of unsubstantiated claims, including that senior Labour figures “colluded many times in a cover up”.
The GMB, which represents 600,000 workers, including ambulance drivers and manufacturing staff, initially said he was standing down after five years in the post due to health reasons.
Last night, Mr Roache said: “These allegations are entirely made up with the intention of totally discrediting me.
“With no names of the accusers I have no opportunity to challenge and prove my entire innocence.
“I have spent 40 years defending people based on evidence and the right to natural justice.
“This anonymous letter affords me neither.”