Reproduced from Sunday Mirror 22 June, 1997

Smiling seductively, she peeled off her skin-tight outfit and invited Toots Kass to make love to her.

But minutes later the smile had turned to tears of frustration as Debbie lay naked on the mattress, begging for sex.

"She was trying to rip my clothes off and pleading with me," says Toots. "She pulled me on top of her and literally begged me to make love to her. "She has a fantastic body and I was really tempted, but my mind kept switching to her mother Edwina, because we were in her bed. It felt weird and was just too easy. I said no."

It was to be the last time Toots said no. Despite his initial hesitation, that bizarre first encounter marked the start of an intense and passionate affair between the softly-spoken dancer and the wayward daughter of Edwina Currie.

Night after night they enjoyed marathon lovemaking sessions in the former Tory MP's bed as insatiable Debbie, 22, abandoned her inhibitions and demanded sex SIX times a night.

The pair met in March when Debbie hired Toots, 26, to help launch her pop career. She was about to release her debut single and her mission was to catapult it into the charts in a blaze of publicity.

Toots's entertainment company BUFT supplied backing singers and dancers - including himself - for Debbie's video, and they called themselves The Mojams.

The sexual chemistry between the two was immediate. Toots says: "There were vibes between us as soon as we met.

"While discussions were going on about the video for our record I kept catching her looking at me and she touched me at every opportunity."

As rehearsals went on, Debbie's flirting intensified and Toots took her out to a wine bar. He recalls: "She told me how much she liked me and wanted to take me to bed. I was a bit taken aback and told her I never sleep with girls on the first night. That only seemed to make her more keen.

"She told me about her past sexual encounters - how she'd had group sessions, once with three guys and another time with two. She said she'd enjoyed it and would do it again.

"I liked Debbie but she was offering herself to me on a plate and it was just too easy.

"I offered to drop her at her mum's flat in Clapham, London, and made it clear I wasn't going to stay the night, but in the car on the way she wouldn't keep her hands off me. My friend was driving and Debbie was trying to get into my trousers. It was really embarrassing.

"When we got there she threatened to cry if I didn't go inside. Edwina was canvassing in Derby and Debbie was staying in her London flat. She showed me around the place, which had portraits of Edwina and the family on the walls.

"When we got to her mother's bedroom, which was cream coloured and had a brass posted bed, Debbie stripped naked and started kissing me.

"She had been wearing a clingy little top and tight trousers with a G-string. She unzipped my trousers, pulled me on top of her and iterally begged me to make love to her.

"Meanwhile my friend was still waiting outside for me and kept buzzing at the door. Eventually he got fed up and left me there but I was determined not to have sex with Debbie that night. Her body is amazing and she was hard to resist, but it felt really weird being in Edwina Currie's bed so I said no.

"Debbie carried on pleading. She said no man had refused her before - and it drove her crazy that I had."

Over the next few days Debbie bombarded Toots with saucy phone calls, going into graphic detail about what she planned to do to him and fantasising about oral sex.

Toots decided to keep his distance for a little longer - but in the middle of April he finally gave in. He recalls: "It was a Friday night and I took Debbie out for a meal. Afterwards we went back to Edwina's flat.

"Debbie started taking my clothes off and kissing me all over. We were on the sofa bed in the living room and started having sex.

"Debbie was completely wild. I suppose the fact she'd had to wait so long made her even more so.

"She was very experimental and wanted to do it in every position imaginable. The sofa bed was noisy so we moved into her mother's room and made love all night. It went on and on. Debbie has an amazing sexual appetite and made so much noise I had to put my hand over her mouth to muffle her screams.

"By the morning I was exhausted. She told me she had never had such a build-up and had never wanted anyone so badly."

The couple spent every night of the next week together - in Edwina's bed - and within days Debbie confessed to Toots she had fallen in love with him. They discussed living together and having children.

Toots says: "Debbie is very insecure and I think a lot of that has to do with her upbringing. Maybe because she wasn't close to her father she clings to men.

"She said sex was the only way she could be sure a guy liked her, which I found sad. I told her it wasn't true but I couldn't get through to her. "Debbie loves sex and could satisfy any man. She often wanted to do it six times a night and I would be exhausted after a night with her. I'd be asleep in the middle of the night and she'd tap me on the shoulder and want me to perform again.

"Debbie was very open minded and talked freely about bondage and group sex. "She used to ask me whether I would like to watch her having lesbian sex. As far as I know she has never done it - it seems to be one of her many fantasies.

"She also had a real thing about black guys and said she preferred them because they have more defined physiques. Actually I found that a bit condescending."

As her relationship with Toots became deeper, so did Debbie's insecurities. At one point she decided the only way to keep him where she wanted was by lock and key.

Toots says: "Debbie had gone out early one morning to see the record company and left me in bed at her sister's flat in Victoria.

"When I got up I realised I was locked in. I had to wait for her to come home. She said she wanted to make sure I didn't leave."

At the end of May Debbie dropped a bombshell. She was due to tell a press conference the next day that her record, which had reached No68 in the charts, was a hoax made for a Cook Report TV investigation showing how bulk-buying squads can help records gain false chart positions.

"I was stunned," says Toots. "I couldn't believe it.

"Debbie simply apologised and said she loved me, but she couldn't tell me before because the contract insisted she kept it secret.

"I am really disappointed that Debbie lied to me. I feel personally betrayed that a girl who had bared her soul to me was now telling me she had conned me.

"Debbie said she loved me but she's made me look like a complete idiot. "She let me think we were about to hit the big time when all she was doing was stringing me along.

"I've lost work, I've lost my reputation and I've lost someone I thought was really special."

Despite Toots's anger, Debbie still bombards him with love messages on his mobile phone.

He says: "We still see quite a lot of each other. How she will react to me turning the tables on her like this remains to be seen.

"Perhaps it will make her appreciate the pain of being a victim of deceit." Debbie Currie poured out her heart to lover Toots about her deeply troubled childhood - and revealed that her parents are secretly virtually separated. She told Toots: "This family is so dysfunctional. My mum's a control freak, my dad just cares about his beer and my sister is some juvenile prodigy." Debbie claimed her parents had little time for her when she was growing up. Toots says: "She'd been to boarding school, which she hated, and said her dad preferred her clever sister Susan to her.

"Her parents have been virtually separated for three years but few people outside the family know. Her mum and dad are chalk and cheese - she's the high flyer, while he is an accountant who's happy to be just that."

Talking about her father, Debbie told Toots: "He's got his beers, he's got his cigars, he's got his horses and he's got his mates.

"He really doesn't care, and my mum cares too much."

Debbie told Toots of her love and respect for her forthright mother, but her resentment at the way Edwina interfered with her life.

She said: "I'm not entirely sure what I want to do, and that frustrates my mum because she knew what she wanted to do from about age three and she wasn't going to be happy until she got it, and she just kept going.

In an interview with the Sunday Mirror this week, Edwina gave no hint of trouble in her marriage.

In her flat in Clapham, South London, she spoke of her pride in Debbie and how she was able to spend more time with her family since losing her seat as an MP last month.

Husband Ray, who runs a business training accountants, still lives at the family home in Derbyshire while Edwina spends most of her time in London. "Ray and I don't necessarily see more of each other, we just have more time, we're less pressed and don't have to dash off somewhere," she said, perching on one of the cream leather sofas with which Toots had become so familiar.

"I've seen a bit more of my husband because he's been coming down to London, but that may be just for summertime parties, I don't know." Laughing, she added: "We see each other at parties - how bizarre." Asked if Ray was happy about that, Edwina said: "He's always happy."

Childhood snapshots of Debbie and Susan in glass frames line the cream coloured walls in Edwina's plush, tidy flat.

Looking chic in a cream blouse and grey, pinstripe trousers, she balanced a cup on a glass coffee table piled with magazines.

By the window is the green striped sofa bed where her daughter finally managed to seduce Toots.

"I have asked her how much of what she said to the Press was true," said Edwina, referring to Debbie's revelations about her colourful sex life. "She just grinned.

"I think she has calmed down a lot now. I don't have much influence on what she does - I'm only her mum. But I'm very, very proud of her."

Debbie told Toots Edwina still wants to control her life. He says: "While she was visiting Israel, Debbie fell in love with a guy, and when she came home she wanted to go back to Israel. But Edwina persuaded her to stay at home. Debbie has great love and respect for her mum but can only take her in small doses.

"Edwina wants Debbie to use her brain but Debbie says she doesn't want to wear a suit and have to sit on her backside all day."

When we approached Edwina again yesterday, she said: "Whatever this man might want to say is entirely up to him." Debbie refused to make any further comment.