His ex-wife told The Project: “I thought that was disgusting! Mind you, I’m young at this time and I’m going, ‘Oh my gosh! I’m turned off, I don’t want to see this.’”

However, Priscilla soon changed her mind after their first meeting, for which she was “very nervous obviously”.

The 76-year-old recalled how the then 24-year-old was sitting in a chair looking over at her and said to himself, “Well, what do we have here?”

Totally taken in him by his charm, she added: “There was so much energy, charisma.”