February 13, 2010

'I didn't sleep with that big fat wide-boy liar': Brigitte Bardot's fury at Sarkozy's bragging friend

Brigitte Bardot has accused one of Nicolas Sarkozy's closest political allies of being a 'big, fat wide-boy liar' after he bragged that he had seduced her when he was just a teenager.
Patrick Balkany, a senior member of France’s ruling UMP party and a Paris mayor, has regularly boasted about a night of passionate with the legendary sex symbol.
But the famously caustic Bardot categorically denied the liaison. 'I know with whom I have slept and it certainly was not with this fat wide-boy liar, an unusually inelegant cad,' she wrote in a statement to the press.
'For a politician who claims to be credible, respected and dignified, this lowliness shows his true personality.'
Enlarge   Brigitte Bardot
'I know who I slept with': Brigitte Bardot is furious at claims she was seduced by a toyboy French politician
Balkany, now a portly 61-year-old, said that he managed to seduce the star of ‘And God Created Woman’, now 76, during a seaside weekend at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
In a country where infidelity among senior politicians is taken for granted,  the claim has boosted Mr Balkany’s electoral popularity. 
But, following his latest boast during a live TV discussion of Saturday, a  furious Miss Bardot said: ‘I am beginning to get fed up hearing Mr Balkany boasting that he had an affair  with me, and have already formally denied it.
'The next time I will go to court  for damages and interest.’
balkany taj 2008
'Big ninny': Patrick Balkany, right, with Nicolas Sarkozy at the Taj Mahal in 2008
'All her life, people have told rubbish about her,' said Christophe Marie, head of animal protection at her foundation. 'She feels wounded and soiled and doesn't understand the Levallois mayor's actions unless it's a desire to get people talking about him to sell his books.'
Mr Balkany, who has just published his biography, called ‘A Different Truth –  Mine’, said his encounter with Miss Bardot took place in Deauville, Normandy, at the height of her fame in 1967.
Miss Bardot is meant to have told the 18-year-old Mr Balkany: ‘Listen, I can't  sleep with someone if I am not in love.’
Mr Balkany then added: ‘Ten minutes later, she said in a whisper: “But you know, I can fall in love three times a day”'.
Bardot pictured in 1967, the year Balkany claims he was seduced by the French actress. Left, the 76-year-old animal rights campaigner
Miss Bardot was married to the German tycoon Gunter Sachs at the time, but divorced him in 1969 before marrying her current husband, Bernard d'Ormale, in 1992.
She gave up her film career in the 1970s to become an animal rights activist,  and to lobby against the ‘Islamification’ of France.
Even by French standards, the current government is one of the most sexually  charged in history, with ministers regularly admitting to affairs outside marriage. 
Immigration minister Eric Besson has just confessed to having a secret lover half his age, while even President Sarkozy was once notorious for his bed-hopping - though not since he met and married supermodel Carla Bruni.
Mr Balkany regularly socialises with the couple, and often offers the media tidbits of information about his friend Mr Sarkozy's personal life.

New England captain Rio Ferdinand's 'stag night fling with model'

Tslil Sela

Model Tslil Sela claims to have had a fling with Rio Ferdinand during his stag week in Tel Aviv last June
He was supposed to be the man to draw a line under the sordid John Terry affair.
Rio Ferdinand replaced Terry as England captain last week following strenuous attempts to improve his disreputable image.
So coach Fabio Capello will not be overjoyed to learn that an Israeli model claims to have dallied with 31-year-old Ferdinand during his stag week in Tel Aviv last June.
Offers of more than £20,000 were being sought for 22-year-old Tslil Sela's account of the time she spent with the Manchester United star just before he married his long-term partner. She has told friends that she was with him while Rebecca Ellison was at home in Britain with their baby son and their two-year-old boy two weeks before the wedding.
Miss Sela's modelling agent in Tel Aviv, named Roberto, was hawking around her story yesterday and insisting that it involved 'more just a one-night stand'.
He said: 'You know exactly what I'm offering. Something that will make big news in England. I know the story, and
you know the story. It's the story of the girl, but you need to pay.'
The episode heaps fresh embarrassment on the England squad after Terry was stripped of the captaincy in disgrace following his extramarital affair with team-mate Wayne Bridge's ex-girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel.
To make matters worse, fellow England star Ashley Cole is facing claims by a glamour model that she was sent raunchy messages from his phone including naked pictures of him.
Ferdinand's advisers have worked hard to transform his wild reputation in the years after he was banned for missing a drugs test, convicted of drink driving and filmed himself having group sex in Cyprus.
Rio Ferdinand pictured partying at the Galina nightclub in Tel Aviv while on his stag week
Rio Ferdinand parties at the Galina nightclub in Tel Aviv while on his stag week
He recently relaunched his charity the Rio Ferdinand Live the Dream Foundation, which aims to 'educate and guide young people', and he is a patron of the Prince's Trust.

 
Only yesterday, a press release promoting Ferdinand's role in a movie called Dead Man Running called him a 'role model' and quoted him as saying: 'You've got to use your position to say something. I still believe to this day if I hadn't been a footballer, I'd have been a youth worker.'
Ferdinand and his wife Rebecca, who wed last year and have two children together
Ferdinand and his wife Rebecca, who wed last year and have two children together
But yesterday the player's morals were under question once again as details emerged of his stag week in Tel Aviv. During visits to numerous clubs, he was apparently spotted 'dirty dancing' with Miss Sela at the Clara nightspot.
A witness recalled: 'They were dancing together, and it was "hot" dancing, not the normal type. They were having a great time together. Afterwards, Tslil was very embarrassed and denied even being with Rio Ferdinand, even though everyone had seen her with him.'
One friend claimed to the Mail: 'Rio was rude, vulgar and crass at the nightclub. He spotted a beautiful young university student and told her, "I will give you anything you want". He went back to the Intercontinental Hotel with her and two other men. She was desperate her family didn't find out.'
Yesterday friends said Miss Sela was 'in shock' at discovering Ferdinand had been only two weeks away from marrying his partner of seven years.
One said: 'She had no idea he was on his stag week. She's really not that kind of girl.'
Last night, Miss Sela refused to answer the door of the £300,000 three-bedroom apartment she shares with her parents - both high-flying academics - in a middle-class suburb of Tel Aviv.
Asked about any relationship with Ferdinand, she said: 'I would let you in but I don't have permission from my agent. My agent just told me he wants to close this story with you. Contact Roberto so we could help.'
Miss Sela is a psychology student and an aspiring model. She has posed in seductive swimwear and underwear for magazine photoshoots. In some pictures, she is made up to look like a Twenties siren.
She has also been a recent contestant on a brash Israeli reality TV show called The Models - where she gained a reputation for annoying all the other contestants but still made the final.
Her 'fan page' on the social networking site Facebook describes her as 'the face of an angel and a big mouth' and 'sweet like the girl next door'.
Ferdinand, centre, parties with his brother and friends at Clara Club in Tel Aviv last June
Ferdinand, centre, parties with friends at Clara Club in Tel Aviv last June, when Miss Sela claims to have met him
Ferdinand pictured with John Terry, whom he replaced as England captain after revelations of Terry's affair
Ferdinand pictured with John Terry, whom he replaced as England captain after revelations of Terry's affair
Miss Sela's father Joseph heads a charity for children at risk. Her mother is an inspector at the Israeli ministry of education.
Ferdinand - whose football agent Pini Zahavi is from Israel - says he loves the country and he has been there on holiday at least six times. He has been repeatedly photographed in Tel Aviv nightclubs surrounded by girls.
Last night his spokesman initially declined to comment, but later rang back and said: 'Rio says it's not true.'

Forgiven: John Terry kisses and makes up with wife Toni by pool in Dubai

When the time comes for John Terry to hang up his boots, a new career beckons as an actor.
The disgraced footballer threw himself whole-heartedly yesterday into the role of loving husband with eyes only for wife Toni.
In scenes of saccharine sweetness enacted for the waiting cameras, Terry kissed and cuddled Toni while their twin children played beside a Dubai pool.
Enlarge   Family time: Terry cuddles up to his wife as their children play nearby
Happy families: Terry cuddles up to his wife as their children play nearby
Recriminations over his latest affair presumably had to wait until they were safely behind closed doors at their five-star hotel suite.
Terry, 29, flew out to the Middle East on compassionate leave from Chelsea, a week after his sacking as England captain by manager Fabio Capello.
Toni had fled their Surrey home with twins Georgie John and Summer Rose soon after the £170,000-a-week star lost a court battle to prevent details being published of his fivemonth fling with Vanessa Perroncel, former girlfriend of his England colleague Wayne Bridge.
John Terry and wife Toni share a kiss as they relax poolside in Dubai
Forgiven: The couple share a kiss as they relax poolside
Terry, who has cheated many times on Toni, his childhood sweetheart, is said to be desperate to save their marriage and yesterday's pre-Valentine's Day performance suggests the prospects are good.
After arriving in Dubai Terry had not only to face his wife, 29, but was also confronted by her furious parents Sue and Alan Poole.
The Dubai meeting was the first time the couple had seen one another after in the two weeks since news broke of his affair with Perroncel, 33, the former partner of his teammate Wayne Bridge.

John Terry and wife Toni Poole
John Terry and wife Toni Poole
The couple couldn't keep their hands of each other after their reunion
Terry reportedly paid for 100 red roses to be sent to his wife's hotel room, and said he'd learnt from his mistakes.
'I've realised what a big mistake I've made,' he told the Daily Mirror.
'It has made me sit down and realise what's important in my life.
'My wife and kids are all that matters and I can't believe I was stupid enough to risk losing them.'
Toni said: 'John looked me in the eye and said he's changed. We have drawn a line under this episode. It's all about our future as a family from now.'
Toni's glum look from the past few days was replaced by smiles as she was reunited with her husband
Toni's glum look from the past few days was replaced by smiles as she was reunited with her husband


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Terry and his wife kiss and make up
It was no doubt an awkward day for the former England captain, 29, with his in-laws in attendance, who were understandably furious with the way he has treated their daughter.
The couple and Toni's parents spent the day by the pool, sunbathing, eating and drinking and playing with the twins.
On board Emirates flight EK8, Terry, who wore a white hoodie emblazoned with Great Escape star Steve McQueen, reportedly drank a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc white wine.
Footballer John Terry with his wife, Toni Poole on a break in Dubai.
Two's company...: The Terrys will repair their marriage under the watchful eye of his in-laws, who have accompanied Toni to Dubai

Terry was given time off by Chelsea this weekend in order to be by his wife's side
Terry was given time off by Chelsea this weekend in order to be by his wife's side
Other woman: Vanessa Perroncel is said to have had an affair with Terry last autumn
Other woman: Vanessa Perroncel is said to have had an affair with Terry last autumn