Sex? At my age, I prefer yoga, says Terence Stamp, 79
HE IS the silver-screen heartthrob who numbers Julie Christie and Brigitte Bardot among his lovers.
But at the age of 79, Terence Stamp is preparing to bid goodbye to his once very busy sex life.
In an exclusive interview with today’s Event magazine, the star of Superman and Wall Street says: ‘The fact is I am past my best. I’ve still got wonderful relationships with women but I’m not looking to get s***ged four times a week.
‘My feeling about sex is that I’ve finally been tossed from the saddle of a horse that I’ve been clinging on to for the past 60 [years]. So it’s kind of a relief really.’
The actor was speaking ahead of the publication later this month of his memoir, The Ocean Fell Into The Drop, in which he writes how supermodel Jean Shrimpton captured his heart in the 1960s.
He laments: ‘She left me because she saw I was a lunatic. I wasn’t ready for a twin-soul relationship.’
More recently, Stamp was married to Elizabeth O’Rourke, whom he met in an Australian pharmacy. The couple wed when she was 29 and he was 64, but divorced after six years.
Of his friendship with a young Princess Diana, he says: ‘We got on amazingly well... I saw the sadness in her because she’d gone into a marriage believing – she was a believer in marriage. And it didn’t turn out the way she expected it to.’