Alan Titchmarsh , 75, was prompted to reveal an intimate confession about his marriage after hearing fans had complained about the lack of sex in his book, The Gift, which was released in 2022. The ITV presenter and gardener is also a best-selling novelist, and was known for including some steamy love scenes between his characters. However, during a live Q&A with The Telegraph about his recent fiction book, interviewer Bunny Guinness quizzed him on why those scenes had seemingly become more tame.
She told Alan in the unearthed chat from 2022: “To start with, you did have a bit of sex in your books, dare we say. But have you almost been bullied out of the sex scenes?” The author sheepishly explained: “There’s one thing, Bunny, that happens to you when you write a novel is that, in my case, you do the audiobook as well and when it comes to the audiobook, it’s you in a little tiny booth with a big microphone and a pair of earphones. “And it’s quite dark, and there’s a big sheet of glass, and on the other side of that is a sound recordist, and he’s generally male, he’s generally large, and he’s generally bearded.
.. it does put you off a bit.
Disagreeing that he completely shied away from more racy plot lines in The Gift, Alan pointed out one intimate moment in the book: “I still write...
there’s a sensuous...
” Bunny then interjected: “Well, a bit of breast fondling and then it’s straight out looking at the sheep!” “Well, that’s life, isn’t .