Chat show legend Trisha Goddard says she now knows what sex really is - aged 61.
The TV favourite has opened up about her new lease of life in the bedroom.
Trisha split from husband Peter Gianfrancesco two years ago - and has written in great detail about her love life, although she stopped short of revealed exactly who her mystery man is.
She says she was terrified about having sex with another someone else after her love split but she hasn't looked back since finding someone who could be Mr Right.
"I never imagined being single in my late fifties," the star wrote.
"My long-distance marriage — me in the US, him in Australia — was crumbling, with no chance of us resurrecting it.
"By the time I decided to call time on it, I was a total mess.
"People who blather on about it being too easy to divorce don't have a clue what they're going on about.
"How I got the courage to FaceTime my upset husband to tell him he would be served the divorce papers the next day, I will never know. I felt physically sick. But when it was all over, I was free.
"Yet this feeling didn’t last long as it was overridden by the realisation that, at 59, I would be dating again. And the terrifying prospect of having sex with another man.
"For most of my adult life I have been one of those women who never really “got” why people kept banging on about sex.
"For me, it was something you just had to do in a relationship.
"You might as well put it in the same category as cooking family meals or doing laundry. It was just another “thing” one knowingly or unknowingly signed up for."
She added: "On my talk show, I would often have couples talking about being in a sexless relationship.
"They took my laid-back reaction as me being non-judgmental. Bless them.
"Back then, it was a normal state of play for me.
"My drought went on so long. Following my year of breast cancer treatment 11 years ago, I considered myself a born-again virgin, despite still being married.
"A major reason behind my lack of interest in sex is that I have never considered myself to be sexy.
"Growing up, I was always the tomboy who was referred to as “Goddard” by lots of my guy mates.
"The very few relationships I have been involved in were born out of pre-existing friendships I had with men. But because I didn’t feel remotely sexy, these guys, my old pals, didn’t turn me on.
"I didn’t even bother advising them what I was looking for in the bedroom, otherwise they would have been told: “Peace and quiet and a good night’s sleep please.”
"That’s hardly Fifty Shades material. My view on sex may also be down to me being of that generation born in the Fifties who had it drummed into them that sex was grubby."
Now, that's all changed.
"Thankfully that man arrived a month before my 60th birthday," she beamed. "Now I get what sex is all about, 44 years after I lost my virginity in the fumbling, blink-and-it-was-over way.
"I was experiencing actual love. When I was asked about my new man by Lorraine Kelly on her show, I started giggling like a teenager.
"My head was telling me to get a grip, my heart was beating with the strength and beauty of my ancestors’ drums on Independence Day.
"I won’t tell you his real name but I call him #Boo, and since meeting him I know what really makes a man sexy. It is not just looks.
"Sexy is a man who doesn’t need me to make less of myself to make himself look “manly”. He looks straight into my eyes and loves that I work."
