Mensa-swerving hotel heiress Paris Hilton is queen of the dead-eyed home porno – with her 2004 home sex tape thrusting her to from Hollywood nightclub perennial to global superstar. But who else has been named and shamed in a celebrity sex scandal?
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Fancy a Mars Bar? Well, most of us were put off chocolate for good when when we heard the myth about Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and their x-rated eating disorder. Cops alleged that they discovered the two of them in a sticky situation during a drugs raid – but it's an allegation that Mick and Marianne have always denied.
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Posh raised her eyebrows for the first time in months when PA Rebecca Loos claimed that she'd been scoring with England ace David Beckham back in 2003. Becks dismissed the allegations as "ludicrous" however. When Loos's next relationship was with a large boar on reality show The Farm, further doubt was cast on her reliability as a historical witness.
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Becks is far from the only footie player to be smeared in the papers for his supposed sexual proclivities. "I've been to dogging sites maybe a dozen to 15 times and, yes, I have taken part and had sex," former England footballer Stan Collymore admitted, after his penchant for public passion was exposed by The Sun.
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EastEnders actor Leslie Grantham was far from ready for his close-up when he self-diddled via webcam for the benefit of a reporter. Dirty Den was fired from the soap after slagging off his co-stars and demonstrating that he could live up to his character's nickname with little encouragement.
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Fifteen years before Pazzer Hilton made her fateful camcorder tape, West Wing alumnus Rob Lowe recorded himself having a knee-trembler with two female fans – one of whom was just 16 years of age. Talk about "Illegally Yours"...
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Teenage boys of the world could marvel once again at Pam Anderson's giant pair of personalities in 1998. A video company released a movie starring the Breasts of Baywatch celebrating their marriage to Tommy Lee in a manner that would have made Lindsey Dawn MacKenzie's eyes water.
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Gruesome twosome Neil and Christine Hamilton were falsely implicated in a sex scandal in May 2001, just as a documentary on their life was being filmed by Louis Theroux. The police investigation was dropped and their accuser, Nadine Milroy-Sloan, was sent to prison – but the footage of Christine enjoying a Mrs Robinson moment with the presenter did little to aid her reputation.
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Speaking of batty old Tory ladies, Edwina Currie revealed in 2002 that she'd spent the mid-1980s tumbling in and out of the frankly resistible John Major's arms. She also revealed that he wore blue underpants – not the grey everybody would have expected – and even that was too much information.
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Jamie Theakston made headline news for all the wrong reasons in 2002 when he was snapped waggling Theakston Junior around in a Mayfair bondage club. "I'd like to apologise to my family", he meeped in a statement, before hurrying home to slap on the Savlon. Possibly.
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