今日阅读分享：Love story of an 80 year-old lady. 仿佛看到了伊丽莎白泰勒
“If a man has a womanising streak, you can’t pin him down.”
如果一个男人好色，你是拦不住的。
Jan Leamington, the former BBC newsreader who married 5 times, was so in love with her fourth husband that she considered 'ending her life' when their marriage ended.
Born Janet Atkins, she was just 19 when she got wed for the first time to a BBC engineer in 1961. She had been desperate to leave home but John was much older than her and the marriage lasted just six months.
She then moved to New Zealand with writer Owen Leeming, her BBC mentor. She did not marry him, and the relationship did not last, but she took his name.
Her second wedding was to estate agent Jeremy Gilchrist in 1972, and Jan was very happy in their marriage – until he left her for a Swedish woman just eight months down the line.
Husband number three was BBC Radio 2 presenter Patrick Lunt, who she married in 1980 and who is the father of her son Jonathan.
But five years into their marriage the couple became friendly with former Red Arrows manager Eric Steenson and his wife Robin – so friendly, in fact, that the two couples swapped partners.
Jan was married Eric in 1988 but seven years later he left her. She tells Saga magazine: “He was a womaniser, too. But he was the love of my life.”
A couple of years ago she revealed that her final marriage to headteacher Christopher had left her broke, after she paid off all his debts and put a “great big lump sum” into their Kent cottage.
But despite all the heartache Jan, who recently celebrated her milestone 80th birthday with her son in Australia, is still keen for a new relationship.
She adds: “I know I look younger than I am, which is very nice – but it can be a disadvantage.
“When male contemporaries find out my age, they head in the other direction – for a woman 20 years younger.”
1. womanise: v. 追求女色；玩弄女性
2. streak: n.（尤指不好的）性格特征
3. reveale：v. 透露
4. contemporaries: n. 同龄，同辈人
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