CRAIG BROWN: Who's the king and queen of kiss 'n' tell?

As Danny Cipriani reveals his seemingly insatiable sex habits in his new memoir, CRAIG BROWN asks, who’s the king and queen of kiss ‘n’ tell?

The rugby player Danny Cipriani has written a memoir in which he reveals that, at the height of his fame, he would sleep with three different women in a day – ‘everyone from porn stars to actresses to girls I meet at the coffee shop’.

The number of kiss ’n’ tell memoirs mounts by the day. How well do you know them? See how you score in this special quiz-and-tell…

1. Who, in her own memoir, said that Danny Cipriani ‘turned out to be a liar and a womaniser and… left me a broken woman?’

a) Patsy Kensit

b) Kelly Brook

c) Katie Price

d) Lindsay Lohan

The rugby player Danny Cipriani has written a memoir in which he reveals that, at the height of his fame, he would sleep with three different women in a day

2. In Marianne Faithfull’s memoir, she tells of the time she rejected a pass from Bob Dylan. How did he react?

a) By saying, ‘It ain’t me, babe, it ain’t me you’re lookin’ for’

b) By jumping onto a motorbike and racing away

c) By ripping up sheets of his writing into pieces, throwing them in a bin and saying ‘Are you satisfied now?’

d) By bursting into tears

3. Which politician’s lover recalled: ‘Sometimes the touch would start something, we would kiss and things would go on from there… If I was wearing a skirt, he would slide his hand up my leg, under it. He used to stroke my back. And, yes, I did give him sex in the office a couple of times. He would usually be going through his ministerial box – maybe things to do with regeneration or the environment’?

a) David Mellor

b) John Major

c) Jonathan Aitken

d) John Prescott

In Marianne Faithfull’s memoir, she tells of the time she rejected a pass from Bob Dylan. How did he react?

4. ‘ “This is Norman,” Jeremy continued. “I want you to keep an eye on him while I am away.” ’ Norman Scott’s memoir includes this description of Jeremy Thorpe introducing the young Norman Scott to… whom?

a) Antony Armstrong-Jones

b) Cecil Beaton

c) Jeffrey Archer

d) Lord Boothby

5. ‘That big dark, hunky boy, the only one there huge enough for me… and when he kissed my neck I bit him long and hard on the cheek, and when we came out of the room blood was running down his face… And I screamed in myself, thinking: Oh, to give myself crashing, fighting to you.’ In her journals, who wrote this about whom?

a) Sylvia Plath about Ted Hughes

b) Elizabeth Taylor about Richard Burton

c) Simone de Beauvoir about Jean-Paul Sartre

d) Edwina Currie about John Major

6. ‘When I give myself to a man, I am at his command. Whatever he desires, I will do… once in bed, I am like a slave. I willingly accommodate any demands that are made on me, sparing chains, whips and diversions.’ This is a passage from Britt Ekland’s memoirs. Which one of these celebrities did she not go to bed with?

a) Warren Beatty

b) Rod Stewart

c) Patrick Lichfield

d) George Best

This is a passage from Britt Ekland’s memoirs. Which one of these celebrities did she not go to bed with?

7. Which political leader’s memoirs contained this vivid description of his sexual awakening? ‘I felt her breasts brushing my shoulders… she arrived with her top carelessly undone and her bosoms more than usually visible… she unbuttoned her blouse and, gently taking my hand, placed it on her breast.’

a) Harold Macmillan

b) David Owen

c) Paddy Ashdown

d) Jeremy Corbyn

8. ‘With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt.’ Who placed these lines from Romeo And Juliet in a Washington newspaper for their lover on Valentine’s Day?

a) Humphrey Bogart for Lauren Bacall

b) Mia Farrow for Frank Sinatra

c) Monica Lewinsky for Bill Clinton

d) Warren Beatty for Madonna

Answers: 1c; 2c; 3d; 4a; 5a; 6d; 7c; 8c.

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