Britt EklandSHE may be in her 60s but Britt Ekland proved she's still every inch the glamour puss when she appeared in Swindon to sign autographs.

Fresh from appearing in panto in Guilford the former Bond girl and ex wife of the late Peter Sellers arrived at the Brunel Centre wearing leopard skin boots, a bright pink coat and carrying that essential accessory, a chihuahua.

Clearly someone who believes in speaking her mind, Britt gave her verdict on the recent film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, in which her character was played by Charlize Theron and Peter's by Geoffrey Rush.

She said: "I didn't think anything about the film they did. It was not my life that they portrayed they made it up.

"They showed us having picnics but we met and married in January.

"That was not our courtship and it was not how it ended.

"I think Geoffrey Rush is a great man and a lot more charming than Peter ever was.

"Even in the film he was more charming."

Despite the way her husband allegedly treated her, she admits he launched her film career.

"We did some movies together and that was good for my career."

One of her most memorable roles though was as the Bond girl Mary Goodnight in The Man With The Golden Gun.

Part of the film was filmed on Phuket, which was badly hit by the recent tsunami.

Britt said: "Phuket didn't exist when we were there.

"It was just a beach with trees. They said they had plans to built a hotel there but we slept in a school and had our own generators."

Britt is going there next month to holiday and thinks others should do the same to help the tourist industry.

"If you don't go there you don't help them. People should go on holiday there."

Britt has just sold her London home and she is currently "living out of a suitcase."

And she says she likes it that way.

She said: "I can just take each day as it comes and do as I please."

She has kindly donated a signed picture of herself which will be auctioned off at the charity concert which the Adver is holding tonight at the Goddard Arms in Swindon to raise money for the tsunami disaster.

BRITT on

PETER SELLERS

'I have blotted him from my memory.

'I was married to a sickly older man.

'We lived far out in the central Surrey and I was isolated.

'I didn't have any friends here and he wanted me to be just with him and to alienate me from his family.

'That's just one of those many psychological tricks they (men) play.'

THE WICKER MAN

'I saw the Wicker Man for the first time a few years ago I never watch my movies.

'The nude person in the film is not me I told them I would not do nudity.

'They used a body double.

'It was a horrible body they used, I don't look like that.

'It had a big fat bum and big thighs.

'It was just disgusting.'

THE NEXT BOND

'I think they just must keep Piers Brosnan. He is the best

'I can't see anyone today that would make a better James Bond than him.

'He is suave, he is handsome and he is in extremely good shape.

'If they take someone in their late 20s or 30s that would be wrong.

'It has to be a man who is completely sophisticated and a real man.

'I loved Roger Moore in the Bond role and I still do.

'He's a superb human being who I loved working with.'

Diana Milne