Many ordinary people are inclined to fib about the delicate subject of virginity - but the stories some of the stars tell stretch credibility to the limit, as ALISON BOSHOFF reported for the Daily Mail...

SEAN CONNERY - EIGHT

The Bond actor, now 87, confessed to an interviewer that he was only eight years old when he had sex, although he could not remember anything else about it.

He told For Women magazine: ‘I can’t recall how it happened or with whom — I only know I did. I have always loved women — blonde, brunette but preferably foreign. They’re more attractive than British and American women.’

He added that he wasn’t successful with women until he was 20. ‘I paid 15 shillings a week to join a weightlifting club. I started lifting weights, not so much to be fitter but to look good for girls.’

Sean Connery (left, as a teenager) said he was eight when he first had sex; while Johnny Depp first did so on the back seat of a car when he was 13

JOHNNY DEPP - 13

The Pirates Of The Caribbean star said he was only 13 when he lost his virginity — on the back seat of a car.

At the time he was a guitarist in a band called Flame, and the girl was a fan.

He, of course, also went on to date Kate Moss, who’s admitted she was only a year older when she lost hers.

ANGELINA JOLIE - 14

The actress and humanitarian has said she was 14 when she lost her virginity: ‘I had started having sex with my boyfriend, and the sex and the emotions didn’t feel enough. I was no longer a little girl.

‘In a moment of wanting to feel closer to my boyfriend, I grabbed a knife and cut him. He cut me back. We had an exchange of something and we were covered in blood, my heart was racing.’

In that same interview she claimed that she was sexually active in primary school, saying she took her clothes off and ‘made out’ with boys.

Angelina Jolie has said she was 14 when she lost her virginity. Cheryl Cole says she has never had a one-night-stand, and that she was 15 when she lost her virginity to a long-term boyfriend from Newcastle

CHERYL COLE - 15

The X Factor judge says she has never had a one-night-stand, and that she was 15 when she lost her virginity to a long-term boyfriend from Newcastle.

She said: ‘I made my boyfriend wait three months, so I am really proud of myself for that.

'The thought of being intimate with someone you don’t know really freaks me out. I think men should earn that intimacy.’

LIZ TAYLOR - 15

National Velvet made Liz Taylor a star aged 12, but by the time she was 14 she was involved with her co-star in that film, Mickey Rooney — with his wife apparently catching her performing a sex act on him.

When she was 15, she reputedly lost her virginity to actor Peter Lawford, on whom she had a crush, in the back of a limousine.

Flings with Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn and John F. Kennedy followed. In an interview years later, she said: ‘I wanted to be a woman . . . I flaunted an hourglass figure at a stage when most young girls were still developing.’

At night, she would lie awake practising French kissing on her satin pillows.

When she was 15, Liz Taylor reputedly lost her virginity to actor Peter Lawford, on whom she had a crush, in the back of a limousine. Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey, 55, lost his virginity to his sixth-form college girlfriend

NEIL MORRISSEY - 17

The Men Behaving Badly star, 55, lost his virginity to his sixth-form college girlfriend.

He said: ‘I was 17, with Janet Evans. We were at sixth-form college and we took the day off and went to her house when her parents were out.

It was awful. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing.’

She was also his first kiss — aged 13. He said: ‘I think a bottle of cider had a lot to do with it.’

CELINE DION — 20

The Canadian singer’s first boyfriend was her manager, Rene Angelil — who had championed her talent from the age of 12.

They first met after he was sent a tape of her singing, and he started to manage her career, taking her and her mother on tour. Angelil mortgaged his house to finance her first album in 1981.

They began a romance when she was 18 — and he was 44.

She recalled him saying to her: ‘If you really want to, I’ll be the first.’ And she answered: ‘You’ll be the first. And the only.’

They were married in 1994 and had three children.

CHRIS MARTIN — 22

The Coldplay singer, whose parents are committed Christians, did not lose his virginity until he had graduated from University College, London, and had formed the band.

He said: ‘There were religious issues . . . also confidence. I had a tricky time with girls.’

He had just one serious girlfriend, who he has never named, but was Green Eyes on the 2002 album A Rush of Blood To The Head.

Within two years he met his future wife, Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow

KATIE HOLMES — 26

Dawson’s Creek and Batman Begins actress Holmes talked about having taken the pledge to remain a virgin until she was married.

She met Tom Cruise in 2004, when she was 26, and was swept up in a whirlwind romance.

The couple got engaged in Paris in June 2004 and daughter Suri was born in April 2006.

Holmes and Cruise were married later that year and she filed for divorce in 2012.