Ned Sherrin: Virgins on the casting couch

Dear Madame

Contrary to what was written in the Daily Telegraph obit posted on your blog, a late friend of mine told me they spent so long casting The Virgin Soldiers because they were obviously having such fun.

An author friend of his, Peter M., was asked by Sherrin to come round and fix his television set only to find he was trying to set up an orgy.

Best wishes,

J [name withheld]
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Duncan Fallowell: 'I offered to do Ned Sherrin ... '

Dear Madame Arcati - Your piece on Ned Sherrin reminded that in the Seventies I offered to do him for free but that he said he preferred to pay. I said I never did it for money because it put too much pressure on me, and he said he never did it without money for the same reason. So I went off in a twirl and did Russell Harty (before he became famous on TV). The strange thing is that I didn't recall any of this until Russell Harty reminded me many years later, both of my sexual event with him and of my badinage with Ned. I'd been so drunk that I recalled none of it directly. Nor did I fancy either of them - it was just the happy frivolity of youth.

With best wishes, Duncan Fallowell

Ned Sherrin is no longer for rent

Two early obits of Ned Sherrin who has unloosened his ends at 76:

"He confessed rather engagingly that he used rent boys for sex because he didn't want to exploit young actors who might sleep with him in the hope of getting a part."
Telegraph

"But even his best friends were surprised when, just after he received his CBE in 1997, he published a diary in which he confessed that he used rent boys for sex contacted through gay magazine ads."
Mail

He confessed to his rent boy usage in Sherrin's Year (1996 - the Mail has got a bit confused date-wise) because he had received blackmail letters - hopefully not from the News of the World or any of those other disgusting tabloid newspapers which are edited by Christians and thrive on blackmail or illegal surveillance. That aside, I found Sherrin socially to be rather a miserable old bitch – like most satirists it must be said. Ever tried a conversation with Richard Ingrams? Serenading a steaming camel's turd in the middle of the Sahara would be more stimulating. One hopes, that unshackled from his dull earthly world and throat cancer, Sherrin can enjoy good long fucks in heaven as the gods congratulate themselves on the ingenuity of their sexual inventions.

Read Duncan Fallowell's attempted seduction of Sherrin click here