Here's something to turn your stomach slightly: Carol McGiffin has claimed that she behaved like a "sex maniac" when she turned 40. Yessir, the rent-a-gusset from Loose Women, who just so happens to be promoting her autobiography Oh, Carol!, and thereby isn't suddenly piping up with titillating things in order to attract more attention to the book, confessed that she went "stark raving bonkers" ten years ago. Ker-azy! No! Really! It is! Look at how many exclamation marks I'm using to prove it! MAD! Cars, drugs, sex... the lot!
"It could have been that the landmark age of 40 sent me over the edge or something because there was a lot of strange behaviour going on," she told The Mirror.
"It couldn't last forever. I was spending huge amounts of money on things I couldn't afford, like I bought this ridiculous sports car, a TVR Chimaera which is a stupid bloke's car. I don't know what I was thinking.
"Then I had my 40th birthday party where we all went to Stringfellows and I ended up pole-dancing in the pub with Peter Stringfellow. There were pictures and everything - it was a nuts thing to do."
McGiffin also admitted that she experimented with cocaine and spoke openly about her relationship with a married man.
"It was like I was a teenager again, I was a sex maniac," she said. "It was not a good idea. I'd never do it again, I can say that for sure. But I still stand by what I thought then - that if you're having an affair with a married man, you are not the married one. He was the married one and at the time I didn't care - I thought, 'He's the one with the problem, not me'."
Sounds like your archetypal Mid Life Crisis to us... and sorry for making you think of Carol 'on the job'. Hope you didn't throw your lunch up.
