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From one bed to another

Actor Saeed Jaffrey's autobiography, An Actors Journey, published this month runs through the Jaffrey's life at a cracking pace. The many wo...

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Actor Saeed Jaffrey8217;s autobiography, An Actors Journey, published this month runs through the Jaffrey8217;s life at a cracking pace. The many women he encountered and had relationships with pop up like so many milestones.

The draft of the book, according to The Daily Telegraph, was 8220;unusually exuberant8221;in its description of his sex life and had to be 8220;calmed down for a British audience.8221; Jaffrey is reported to have said, 8220;I did not agree with my publisher. The explicit details were taken out but I wanted to share some of the lovely experiences I had with the women.8221;

Jaffrey, once married to actress and cookery writer Madhur Jaffrey, charts his life from a struggling actor to the recognised stage actor and film star. His journey from Delhi to the US via Britain and back is peppered with accounts of his sexual infidelities which led to the break-up of his marriage to Madhur Jaffrey and his erotic encounters from New York strip clubs to joining 8220;the mile high club8221; with Vivianne, anAmerican on a flight to Edinburgh.

Even in the so-called censored version, Jaffrey8217;s life as serial bed-hopper appears to overshadow his journey as an actor. So from his first infidelity with Mary C whom he meets at a strip-club through the stage manager Karen, with whom he comforted himself following Kennedy8217;s assassination by 8220;silently making love,8221; and Sheila, a woman who declared in the BBC Club 8220;I8217;ve fallen in love with you8221; and ended up in his room at Lancaster Gate, Jaffrey the hot-blooded lover is on display.

Any more details, and the book may have had to be called An Actor8217;s Sexual Journey.

 

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