Julian Clary doesn't regret being promiscuous in his youth.

Julian Clary doesn't regret sleeping around in his youth

Julian Clary doesn't regret sleeping around in his youth

The 64-year-old comedian - who is now married to Ian Mackley - is working with "a lot of people under 30" as he plays King Herod in the UK touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic 'Jesus Christ Superstar' but has noticed that they would rather go home after a show than engage in any "debauchery" like he did.

He told The Saturday Times: "I am certainly not chaining myself to the railings any more and I think the advances of LGBTQI are really important and require constant vigilance. But the young generation don’t seem to be interested in sh****** as I was. I am working with a lot of people under 30 and they don’t have the same baggage. They are all so sweet and dedicated and earnest but, in the old days, I’d do a show and then, afterwards, the debauchery was astonishing. I was at it all the time. They don’t want that. They’d rather go to bed with a hot lemon

"But yes, I had my trousers down quite regularly — why not? I’m so glad I lived that life. I think it was John Betjeman who famously told Michael Parkinson he regretted not having had more sex in his life. That certainly won’t be on my headstone!"

The former 'Celebrity Big Brother' winner went on to add that he did have to "get over" the thought of having children but his husband - who is in his forties - is now coming to terms with whether it is possible or not to start a family at all.

He said: "I got over that a long time ago but Ian’s in his forties so I suppose he’s at that stage now — in your forties you get a sense physiologically of whether it’s possible to start a family. We’re lucky because, when there’s an age gap, you don’t always feel the same things at the same time, but we agree on that."

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