Moore told the audience at a recent in London: "He was a very small man and he used to touch me and I used to say, 'Don't touch me. You are diseased.' "I wasn't being cruel about his size, it was just that he was a sex maniac. He had a lust for ladies, unnatural." The Bond legend also revealed that his co-star boasted of numerous sexual adventures with prostitutes, although some of them refused his advances and his money.

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Moore was speaking at the Southbank Centre, when he revealed the sexual peccadillos of Villechaize, who was 3ft 11ins tall. The 89-year-old recalled: "When we were in Hong Kong he would find girls in girly clubs and go with a flashlight, 'You, you, not you.'" In a staggering evocation of the bygone days of promiscuity and sexism, Moore added that he asked Villechaize how many women he had slept during the film shoot in the Far East.

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Moore said: "He (Villevchaize) told me 35. I told him that did not count as he paid for them, but he said, 'Sometimes when I pay they refuse.'" The James Bond star was on fine form as he also revealed why watching Lawrence of Arabia "depressed" him and almost ended his career. Moore also admitted that he thinks Daniel Craig is a better Bond than Sean Connery, for one very deadly reason.

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Sadly Villechaize did not enjoy a long and prosperous life full of anecdotes like Roger Moore. After almost two decades in the limelight his life had a tragic ending. The French actor of English and Filipino descent shot to fame after the release of the 1974 Bond film, in which he played the villain Nick Nack. The classic Ian Fleming spy film also starred Maud Adams and Britt Ekland.

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He found a second round of success when he starred alongside Ricardo Montalban as Mr Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, in the television series Fantasy Island from 1978. He was fired in 1984 after repeatedly clashing with the show's producers over his pay demands and unwelcome propositioning of female cast members and crew.

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