Barbara Windsor reveals George Best affair

Barbara Windsor reveals George Best affair
Barbara Windsor reveals George Best affair (Image credit: PA)

Actress Barbara Windsor has revealed that she had a fling with legendary footballer George Best in the 1960s - and described him as "fabulous". Speaking to Piers Morgan on his show Life Stories, the 73-year-old recalled how she first got together with Best at a film premiere in Manchester. "There was this vision, this absolute vision," she said. "In the 60s he was so beautiful. "Anyway, in the bar afterwards he came over to me and he started talking to me and I said 'look, don't waste your time with me darling, you've got all these lovely ladies after you.' "And he said, 'Well, when do I ever get to talk to somebody like you?' Well that did it. That was it. A magic moment again. It was great, he was fabulous." Barbara - who left EastEnders earlier this year after 16 years playing Peggy Mitchell - also spilled the beans on her encounters with other celebrities. She also described how she enjoyed a "little moment" with the late Bee Gees star Maurice Gibb, when she was asked to give him some acting advice and the pair ended up in bed. But when Piers asked how many men she had slept with, Barbara replied, "No idea. Why - have you counted them?" The full interview can be seen on ITV1 at 10.10pm on Saturday night.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.