Widdecombe actually believed that Theroux would stick to his promise of not bringing up her alleged virginity, which, predictably, he does within the first five minutes. Did Widdecombe fancy him? There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts One contemporary remembered that people made ruthless fun of them. "I think it would be quite wrong to suggest that it hasn't played a part," she says. If Louis Theroux invited you to be the subject of one of his documentaries, surely the first thing you'd wonder is: "How weird am I, then?" She was local Tory Chair. Did she not realise that it would be the first thing he would bring up, and that, in fact, the surprise was that it took him as long as five minutes to do so?

(Widdecombe famously threatened to sue a reporter who suggested to her that she wasn't still a maiden. Please "I think it would be quite wrong to suggest that it hasn't played a part," she says.

Come on. {{#sender.isSelf}} Perhaps he was going for a contrast?

She has often said that Mr Right simply never came along.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Independent Premium. "He rather charmingly pretends to be terribly naive, and there was one occasion, not on film, when he seriously tried to persuade me – and this is a guy who read history at Oxford – that he didn't know whether St James's Palace was still standing. "No, I don't think so, not from this distance, no. "Why would they break an agreement?

These daft mothers will have to grow up, says ANN WIDDECOMBE LAST week produced more than the usual crop of daft mothers. Again, those with such marvellous moral certainty and clarity of vision should occasionally look up and see the Big World of contemporary society. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Here we pay tribute to those who have died from the virus in Kent. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss One Oxford contemporary, Julian Priestley, now Secretary General of the European Parliament, said: "To be brutally frank, she didn't have a great deal of physical presence ... she wasn't only small in height, she was actually very thin. "No, I don't think so, not from this distance, no. She'd been bombed out … try again, the name must be uniquePlease That is just not my scene, it's not me," she says, somewhat overstressing the point.Widdecombe is, however, no stranger to affairs of the heart. Her current diet (parliamentary Weight Watchers) does, however, have a considered reason behind it – the onset of varicose veins, lower back pain and raised cholesterol.Widdecombe admits that people have been extraordinarily cruel about her appearance, for example by dubbing her Doris Karloff. The fun part was trying to rumble him, when he was doing his silly act. "He rather charmingly pretends to be terribly naive, and there was one occasion, not on film, when he seriously tried to persuade me – and this is a guy who read history at Oxford – that he didn't know whether St James's Palace was still standing.

I've done other things with life, and certainly it's not an active source of regret and never has been. Yet this is the woman who is widely believed to still be a virgin at the age of 54, whose appearance is, to say the least, unorthodox, and who has in the past trained her sights on abortionists, women priests, homosexuals, unmarried mothers, and asylum-seekers (more than 80 per cent of whom are "bogus", remember).This is the woman who put paid to Michael Howard's chance of becoming Tory leader with the line that he had "something of the night" about him, and who sees nothing strange in writing 1,400 words in a newspaper about the demise of her two cats, or posting a picture of herself on her daffy website – "the Widdy Web" – on the phone with the caption "chicken madras, two naan bread and an onion bhajee". (There's a pretty enjoyable on-screen humdinger, too.) "Widdecombe plans to do one more parliament if her constituents in Maidstone and The Weald are still up for it, and then retire to Dartmoor where she will walk, have a tribe of animals and write more fiction.In the meantime, her days will be spent in Westminster, batting away infernal questions about her virginity from journalists. If I had written a murder mystery, would you ask me what I know about killing people? The fun part was trying to rumble him, when he was doing his silly act. "Theroux shadowed Widdecombe on and off for three months last summer, during the Tory leadership contest, and then joined her and her mother Rita on a cruise of the Arctic. You must think you're Louis Theroux. Log in to update your newsletter preferencesPlease try again, the name must be unique If you're in public life, you get inured to it." In March 2008, she purchased a house in Haytor Vale, on Dartmoorin Devon, where she retired. Ann also thinks science may "produce an answer" to being gay one day. I stopped being tiresome at about 14. Perhaps he was going for a contrast? {{#replies}} RITA WIDDECOMBE, mother of Maidstone and Weald MP Ann Widdecombe, has died suddenly.

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