Roger Moore in 'The Man With the Golden Gun' duel scene

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Roger Moore was as charming off-screen as he was on, regaling friends and audiences alike with wry and often self-deprecating anecdotes. However, he was unusually blunt about actor Hervé Villechaize who played iconic Bond villain Nick Nack in The Man With The Golden Gun, which is back on TV screens later today. Moore was speaking at a special event at London’s South Bank centre in 2016, less than a year before he died, when he shocked the audience with his memories of the outrageous behaviour of his co-star.

The French actor of English and Filipino descent shot to fame after the release of the 1974 Bond film, which also featured Christopher Lee, Maud Adams and Britt Ekland.

He found a second round of success when he starred alongside Ricardo Montalban as Mr Roarke’s assistant Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island from 1978. He was fired in 1984 after repeatedly clashing with the show’s producers over his pay demands and unwelcome propositioning of female cast members and crew.

Moore described even more outrageous behaviour when they worked together on The Man With The Golden Gun.

In a staggering evocation of the bygone days of promiscuity and sexism, Moore added that he asked Villechaize how many women he had slept during the film shoot in the Far East.

Moore said: “He told me 35. I told him that did not count as he paid for them, but he said, ‘Sometimes when I pay they refuse.'”

The 89-year-old recalled watching Villechaize, who was 3ft 11ins tall, in action: “When we were in Hong Kong he would find girls in girly clubs and go with a flashlight, ‘You, you, not you.'”

After everything he saw and heard about, Moore did not mince words with his co-star: “He was a very small man, and he used to touch me and I used to say, ‘Don’t touch me. You are diseased.’

“I wasn’t being cruel about his size, it was just that he was a sex maniac. He had a lust for ladies, unnatural.”

Moore was 89 at the time of his show at the Southbank Centre but sadly Villechaize did not enjoy a long and prosperous life full of anecdotes. After almost two decades in the limelight his life had a tragic ending. 

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It was not Villechaize’s first attempt to end his life. His girlfriend Kathy Self later opened up about his struggles.

As well as the decline of his career, Self described how the actor had been suffering from constant chronic pain due to the stresses his normal-sized organs were putting on his small body.

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN IS ON ITV AT 5PM

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