BANGKOK certainly isn’t populated by prudes, but while I was there last month, a single sex act sent shockwaves through the city. I attended the lavish premiere party for the third season of The White Lotus which took over the entire Four Seasons hotel in the Thai capital, attended by its famous cast and its creator, Mike White. 9 Ashleigh Rainbird with Patrick Schwarzenegger at the lavish premiere party for the third season of White Lotus 9 Ashleigh with Sam Nivola, who plays Lochlan in the hit series It was an otherwise classy and swish event - except all anybody could talk about was incest.
Rumours spread among guests that the upcoming series would feature unsettling scenes of an incestuous tryst , so I obviously had to ask the actors involved how they felt about the scandal they were about to create. Stop scrolling immediately if you haven't seen episode six - or if an act of intimate brotherly bonding is a step too far for your stomach like it was for poor Saxon Ratliff. The third season of The White Lotus is set in Thailand, where the formerly sex-crazed predator Saxon vomits at the mere memory of his drug-fuelled full moon party exploits - apparently Patrick Schwarzenegger, who perfectly portrays the toxic figure, felt nauseous on set too.
Last week’s episode saw him strip shirtless and snog his little brother Lochlan, played by Sam Nivola , having been egged on by Chloe , played by Charlotte Le Bon - a scene some viewers branded “disgusting” and “a step too .
