Sex guru Wendy-Ann Paige found dead by devastated partner at 61

She starred in one of the first-ever sex education videos and helped millions transform their love life, but now she’s tragically “gone”.

Sex guru Wendy-Ann Paige found dead by devastated partner. Picture: Supplied

A British sex guru who starred in an iconic educational movie has been found dead aged 61 – decades after transforming the bedroom antics of millions.

Wendy-Ann Paige starred in The Lovers’ Guide, Britain’s first-ever graphic sex education video, in 1991 – and subsequently enjoyed a lengthy career as a sex-expert.

At the height of her fame, Wendy-Ann lived in a £2 million (about $A 4 million) mansion in picturesque Sussex, a coastal area of South East England.

However, cops are now investigating the sex star’s death after her battle with a £70,000 ($A 142,000) cocaine habit that saw her living like “a hermit” in a rundown unit, The Sun reports.

Officers were called to the property, in Southend, Essex, where the star of the world’s best-selling legal sex video was found unresponsive.

Detectives are waiting for the results of a post-mortem on sex guru, a former Sun sex columnist, as her devastated partner Christian Bines grapples to come to terms with his loss.

Wendy-Ann Paige and her former partner Tony Duffield starred in Britain’s first ever graphic sex education video. Picture: News Group Newspapers

“I just woke up and she was dead. She wouldn’t move and was already gone. I instantly phoned 999 [emergency services],” the 50-year-old said.

“They reckon she may have overdosed on tablets in the night. I remember the evening before she said she wasn’t in pain anymore.

“She’d been in agony ever since falling down some steps when going to the cinema in October last year.

“The accident left her with a slipped disc in her back, a broken collarbone and broken deformed arm which she never truly recovered from.”

Christian claimed Wendy-Ann had been “in bed all the time” since the accident and had continuing battles with depression.

Wendy-Ann shot to fame aged just 28, as the actress in The Lovers’ Guide, which sold 1.3 million copies in Britain.

Wendy-Ann helped millions of couples get more from their sex life by revealing previously risque techniques and positions – and even experienced real orgasms on camera.

She had been working as a marketing director for an overseas property company in 1989 when she met Tony Duffield, then 36.

He was a sound engineer for the band Madness and came into her office to visit a friend who worked there.

She caught his eye and the pair bonded as he fixed her filing cabinet.

They became a couple and responded to an ad in a swingers’ magazine for “real people” to appear in a sex education video.

Lover’s Guide sold 1.3 million copies when it was released in 1991. Picture: Supplied

Wendy-Ann previously told The Sun she was asked her to lie on the floor and masturbate during the audition.

“I wasn’t nervous, I was a natural. I had a thoroughly good time and after I orgasmed,” she said.

Wendy-Ann filmed all her X-rated scenes at a film studio in West London, including live sex with husband Tony.

They were one of seven couples who let cameras film them having sex to show people how to enjoy lovemaking.

She explained: “There were 35 male crew in the room and cameras everywhere, just one female. After I finished, I said, ‘Can I do it again?’”

After becoming an overnight star, Wendy was quickly snapped up by late publicist Max Clifford and landed five sexpert book deals.

She wrote the best-selling Sextrology in 1994, a guide to finding the ideal sexual partner through astrology, which is still stocked on Amazon.

She then went on to become a newspaper astrologist before joining The Sun as a sex columnist.

The popular sex columnist and astrologist has died at the age of 61. Picture: Supplied

Wendy-Ann and Tony moved into a £1 million ($A 2 million), 18-room house in East Sussex, but while her career was going from strength to strength, her relationship was starting to suffer.

She claims Tony became jealous of her fame and couldn’t “keep up” with her in the bedroom.

She got hooked on cocaine. Later she suffered from PTSD and depression.

As their marriage fell apart, Wendy-Ann said she found herself doing cocaine, adding that
“at one point I was spending £70k a year on it”.

Her divorce was finalised until 2006, and in the following years, she battled health problems, including seizures caused by the antidepressant lithium.

An Essex Police spokesman said: “We were called by colleagues in the East of England Ambulance Service Trust at about midday on Friday December 13 after they were alerted to a woman aged in her sixties having been found to have died in Southend.

“Officers were sent to the scene to support.

“The woman’s death is being treated as unexpected and unexplained and post-mortem examination will be carried out to identify the cause of her death.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission

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