Lovers’ Guide guru Wendy-Ann Paige found dead by devastated partner decades after transforming sex lives of millions

LOVER guide sex guru Wendy-Ann Paige has been found dead aged 61 – decades after changing the sex lives of millions of Britons.

Cops are investigating the death of a sex star after a £70,000 drug bust left her living like a “hermit” in a run-down flat.

Wendy-Ann Paige was sadly found dead at the age of 61 Credit: Olivia West

Wendy and her former partner Tony Duffield in The Lover’s Guide 2001 Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

The couple rose to fame illustrating their sexual techniques to magazine and video audiences Credit: People In Pictures

The Lover’s Guide was created by Tony and WendyCredits: Check Copyright

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

Detectives are awaiting autopsy results on former Sun sex columnist Wendy, who previously lived in a £2m Sussex mansion at the height of her fame.

Devastated partner Christian Bines, 50, said: “I just woke up and she was dead. She didn’t want to move and already left. I called 999 immediately.

“They think she overdosed on pills at night. I remember the night before she said she was no longer in pain.

“She has been in agony since she fell down the stairs while going to the cinema in October last year.

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

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

Wendy rose to fame in 1991, aged just 28, as an actress in the film The Lovers’ Guide, which sold 1.3 million copies in Britain.

Wendy has helped millions of couples get more out of their messes by revealing previously risky techniques and positions—before they experience real orgasms on camera.

In 1989, Wendy was working as a marketing director for an overseas real estate company when she met Tony Duffield, who was 36 at the time.

The Lover’s Guide was the first explicit video to be certified 18 – as opposed to X-rated

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

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

They became a couple and answered an ad in a swinger magazine for ‘real people’ to appear in a sex education video.

Wendy previously told The Sun that pundit Andrew Stanway asked her to lie on the floor and masturbate in front of him, adding that she had to be able to do it in front of the team.

She said: “I wasn’t nervous, I was natural. I had a lot of fun and after I had an orgasm he said, ‘You’re hired!'”

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

She explained: “There were 35 male crew members in the room and cameras everywhere, only one woman. After I finished, I said, ‘Can I do that again?’ “

After her first session, Simon told the cameramen, “Stop everything! From tomorrow we all wear baggy chinos to work.

“Wendy, you can take a two hour break because we’re all going to the bathroom for a joint.”

Wendy did not tell her dad William, a soldier in the British Army, about the filming.

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

She wrote the 1994 bestseller Sextrology, a guide to finding your ideal sexual partner through astrology, which is still stocked by Amazon and Waterstones.

Wendy became a newspaper astrologer before joining The Sun as our sex columnist.

Wendy and Tony have moved into an 18-bedroom house worth a million pounds in East Sussex, but she claims Tony became jealous of her fame and couldn’t “keep up” with her in the bedroom.

She got hooked on cocaine. She later suffered from PTSD and depression.

A spokesman for Essex Police said: “We were called by colleagues from the East of England Ambulance Service Trust at around midday on Friday 13 December after being alerted that a woman in her sixties had died in Southend.

“Police officers were dispatched to the scene as backup.

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