Brit lady behind world’s best-selling Lover’s Guide discovered lifeless after dwelling ‘like hermit’

Wendy-Ann Paige is credited with improving countless Brit’s life between the sheets, but is understood to have lived out her final days living like a ‘hermit’ in a flat in Southend, Essex

The woman behind the the best-selling legal intimate video in the world has been found dead by her heartbroken partner. Wendy-Ann Paige, the expert behind Lovers’ Guide, is understood to have been fighting an expensive battle with a cocaine addiction, information that is reportedly being looked into by police, who are now understood to be awaiting the results of a post mortem.

She is credited with improving countless Brit’s lives between the sheets, but is understood to have lived out her final days living like a “hermit” in a flat in Southend, Essex. It was here that the former columnist was found unresponsive.

Her partner Christian Bines, 50, said: “I just woke up and she was dead. She wouldn’t move and was already gone. I instantly phoned 999. 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.”

She is reported to have been suffering from depression since the accident and is reported to spend a lot of time in bed.

Her 1991 Lovers’ Guide shot her to fame after she sold 1.3million copies in the UK alone. She filmed live intimate scenes with her then-husband Tony Duffield, in Acton, West London. The couple had responded to an advert in a magazine looking for real couples to take part in a new show.

An Essex Police spokesperson 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.”

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