THREESOMES: NOT ALWAYS SORDID

Poor threesomes. They're not having a good time of it lately, what with series after series on Channel Five giving the impression that it's the sort of thing that only women in ill-fitting tracksuit bottoms and men honking "nah, no ovver bloke is gonna touch me, pal" ever do; when it is the beautiful people, it seems it's just an excuse for Sadie Frost to force her way into bed, and now, to kill off the image of a threesome as a delicious sexual confection once and for all: Rick Parfitt, an electrician called Nigel from Harrogate and his wife. Rick describes it as his lowest point, although we doubt if Nigel the electrician looks back on it as a golden era, either.

The threesomes took place several times, over 14 months, which points to Parfitt bumping along the bottom rather than being a simple mistake.

"That was a slip and it was alcohol-fuelled," Rick told the Mirror. "I'm a bloke in a rock 'n' roll band and I'm only human. The temptations are there."

We're not sure how a slip lasts for over a year.

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