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Gigolo: Inside the Secret World of the Super Rich

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Jim Perkins aka Ben Foster has spoken about his life as a gigolo. Picture: Neil Didsbury (Image: Archant) We see on our death bed, not our whole life flashing before us – as with a drowning man – but an endless sequence of all the things we had wanted to do and had never done.” Ben Foster works in a care home for young adults with learning disabilities. He is a qualified practitioner of reflexology and used to be a famous masseur.

Thank you Mr David Haviland and Thistle Publishing for a copy of Gigolo by Ben Foster. I felt like this was a good read, although it did have a lot of sex, too much for this gal. I don't normally read books like this, however it has a great story line and likable characters even if snobbish and sexually lit. Big time. It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed ‘station’ in life. It’s what keeps the poor downtrodden.” Ben’s good looks and polite albeit innocent manners name the women hire him for his services but healing through the massages they receive isn’t the only thing these rich and bored upper crust women want from Ben.He said while the core story of the book is true, he admitted that some details had been "embellished" by the ghost writer to make it more entertaining - particularly that he was married at the time.

Ben Foster’s true life story explores the extravagance of old and new wealth in today’s Britain and reveals how some of the super rich relieve their boredom with multiple partners and through sex lives that grow ever kinkier. They replaced me for a younger model, from what I gather. Everything was under their rule," Mr Perkins said. I found myself feeling really disappointed in Ben. He is portrayed as a run of the mill man with the same sort of money worries as the majority of people out there, but he genuinely seems to love his wife, so I was disappointed when he gave in to ‘Lady Mags’ and slept with her so easily without even a hint of protest. Even though you get the sense early on where the book is going (the clue is in the title after all!), I still found myself hoping he wouldn’t succumb. I hoped he would do the decent thing and turn her down and walk away. Similar in some respects to Romeo and Juliet, you know what the outcome is, but when it comes to it, you are still hoping she doesn’t drink the poison. But I guess in this regard, you know when a book has got it right, when you find yourself having an emotive reaction to what they are doing whether it be positive or negative. I definitely found myself wanting to read on to see quite how far down the rabbit hole Ben was willing to go. Quite far as it happens. I could smell her perfume. It was light and airy, a scent I didn’t know, and seemed personal to her. She was so beautiful, I couldn’t bear to look at her.”

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Through my eyes, his wife must have known Ben was up to no-good, but I doubted she ever thought he was a gigolo based on the amount of sex they seemed to have. A reader can see that he was being used, even if he did get paid well for services provided, to them he was disposable, a replacement was highly likely at any moment for his bunch of fake friends. But there is a poignant sting in the tale too, because nothing lasts forever. The funny thing is even while Ben is giving Olympic gold medal-standard performances, you still worry about his welfare. And the fact that there is a financial crash on the horizon only sharpens the feeling of fear and trembling.

I was a stranger in the strange land of the rich and was coming to see that they do things differently there.” So our protagonist finds himself propelled in a world where houses don’t have postcodes, where your services are rewarded with the agreed upon fee but you might happen to get a brand new car. The 44-year-old former bouncer from Great Yarmouth works as a carer and lives in a caravan at Mill Lane in Bradwell. In Gigolo: Inside the secret world of the Super Rich, Clifford Thurlow takes us on a thrilling Rolls Royce ride into the seedy upper echelons of English society. While Mr Perkins used the pseudonym Ben Foster for the book, which was written by a ghost writer, he has today decided to reveal his true identity in the hope of gaining more local support.Married, and a father of three, Ben Foster was struggling to make ends meet, even after working two different jobs. He had inherited some money from his late grandmother and used it to go to school, and became a certified massage specialist, but it wasn’t easy getting clients. There is when making love a moment when the body defies gravity. This is the moment to strive for.”

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