A sex worker who went to Oxford with Liz Truss is said to have an IQ that rivals Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein – but gave it all up for £600 a night a sex.
Hertfordshire-based Melissa Todd dropped out of the prestigious university to pursue a career in the sex industry. Her controversial decision was hotly debated as she Mensa test when she was just 12, joining the world famous ‘high-IQ society’.
Melissa originally wanted to get into economics and was even named ‘Brain of Britain’ decades ago by the Herts and Essex Observer. But her career path took an unexpected turn, reports the Mirror.
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In an exclusive interview she said: “It seems like a very long time ago now… I heard a piece on the radio, I think, like on Jeremy Vine or whatever the equivalent was then and it sounded interesting, I like tests really.
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“Yeah, then I got a lot of A-Levels and passed the Oxford entrance exam and I went to Oxford briefly but then I went mad and dropped out, which is not uncommon among undergraduates. I was doing PPE [Philosophy, Politics and Economics] with Liz Truss although we were different colleges so I don’t remember her at all.”
Although Einstein and Hawking reportedly never took Mensa tests, many sources speculate their IQs were around the 160-mark. For context, an ‘average IQ’ is somewhere between 85 and 115.
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However, documents shown to The Mirror suggest Melissa’s IQ averaged at 178, making her ‘exceptionally gifted’, in the eyes of testers. She was the first person in her family to attend university, but it wasn’t a natural fit.
She continued: “I took a year out because I was going completely mad and annoying everyone sobbing over lecturers and stuff. So, I thought I’ll take a year out and I saw a job advertised in The Evening Standard for table dancers at [a bar].
“And I really didn’t have any ideas of what to do but thought ‘that sounds fun’ and they say you’ll make £600 a night and I really desperately needed money and I like dancing, so why not give it a go?”
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Despite being naturally introverted, Melissa found herself thoroughly enjoying the job. She was captivated by the glitterballs, sequinned outfits and endless bottles of Champagne – it felt as though she had finally found where she belonged.
“It was just literally just meant to be a summer job, or not even that,” she said. “But you get used to being happy and rich, and you meet interesting people who say ‘why don’t you do this’, ‘why don’t you make p*rn’, ‘why don’t you go in a peep show’…and here I am 28 years later thinking ‘I’m probably not going to go back to Oxford am I?’”
Edging towards her 48th birthday, Melissa has now spent decades of her life working for the adult sex industry. She stars in magazines and travels the globe on wild adventures – from ‘spanking conferences’ to lavish sex parties – all while raking in millions.
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