. . World news – GB – I’m a celebrity star Shane Ritchie’s past as  £ 20-a-night gigolo. . . ‘it was amazing!’

Before finding fame, Shane Ritchie drank, dined and slept with older ladies for money – and loved every second of him

Shane Ritchie was just days shy of his 16th birthday when he landed his dream job as a class Pontins Bluecoat.

After adding a few years to his life to get the job, he earned the nickname « Baby Blue » and set out to provide bedding for as many women as possible.

First, I’m a celebrity. . . Get me out of here, the host was chatting with a girl in her twenties who thought he was 18 years old, she threw me like an empty crisp sack in a storm.

On another occasion, he got upset with a group of four naked women after spending a night in Great Yarmouth.

While working at Bluecoat, he got to know a wealthy local businesswoman named Sandra.

In her late 30s, she called Pontin bar once a week for a drink, and on one occasion told Shane, now 56, that only a woman knows what another woman wants in the bedroom.

When asked to clarify, she apparently brought him a pile of lesbian porn.

“I could have died and gone to Heaven,” the former EastEnders star wrote in his autobiography, Rags to Riches.

And through Sandra, Shane finds the next cash holder – sleeping with older ladies for £ 20 a pop.

He wrote: “I ended up being a guitarist. She told me she had two older friends who were so much fun. When you’re 16, it looks like someone in their 30s looks old – and these ladies were in their 50s!

Sandra introduced him to a wealthy divorced man and widow whose late husband left a stable full of racing horses.

“The real estate mogul liked Shane and invited him for dinner followed by a fashion show on a boat.

I sent a chauffeur-driven Mercedes to pick up Shane, before they drank champagne and ate caviar. « It was cool, » Shane recalls..

« At the end of the night she asked to see me again and added, » Shane, I understand you wouldn’t want to do this for nothing, « he said. .

“You mean,” I’ll earn money just by going out to dinner with them?  » I said. I couldn’t believe my luck. ‘not exactly. Sandra replied, «  They expect you to spend the night with them too. But they will pay you.

He continued, “Twenty pounds! Just a little bit of how your father is doing? Yes please! The truth is that I would have done it for nothing..

At the time, he was only earning £ 22 a week as a Bluecoat and sending a large percentage of that back to his mom.

Although every woman has different requests with a real estate mogul preferring to just kiss, cuddle and swell in bed.

« We ended up in the shower, drinking champagne and massaging her shoulders. After showering, she asked me to go to bed and stay with her until she fell asleep before I left.

“I did it with the other lady, maybe five or six times over the summer.

He married actress Christy Goddard in 2007 and they have three children – Mackenzie Blue, 14, Lolita Bell, 12, and Roman Sky Angel Shelley, nine children.

From Rags To Richie: The Story So Far by Shane Richie was published by Contender Books in 2004 and can be purchased online.

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