OAP, 79, claims to have bedded 2,084 woman…but has now given sex up for fishing because relationships are ‘too much trouble’
Wrinkly lothario says he bedded hundreds of women during his career as a music promoter
A RANDY 79-year-old who claims he has slept with more than 2,000 women is giving up bed-hopping to focus on his FISHING.
Wrinkly lothario Chris Culleton says he taking up his rod for a relaxing life because "women are too much trouble".
Chris, who claims he has bedded 2084 women, says he met many of them while working as a music promoter in Warrington, Cheshire.
He says he had to turn down jobs with the Rolling Stones and offshore radio station Radio Caroline because of love.
Chris, of Longford, Chesire, was given the nickname the "Longford Lover" by a local policeman who used to see him with different girls.
He said: ""I had this reputation - it wasn't all me I was pursued a lot.
''I had this reputation as a bit of a ladies' man because I was always seen coming home late at night after I'd dropped a girl off.
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''When I was working at Marks and Spencer, I met this trainee manageress, a Swedish girl. I was a porter then and they were all jealous when she went out with me.
"I was walking out of a hotel and there were two policemen outside and they said 'oh look it's the Longford Lover'. And it stuck."
The grandfather-two now spends his days fishing and is proud president of the SHAG club - Stockton Heath Angling Group.
He says he gave up dating two years ago because "women are too much trouble".
The 79-year-old was born in County Wexford but moved to Warrington at the age of seven and worked as a butcher and at the Co-op before turning band manager.
Rather than making notches on his bedpost Chris wrote in his diary to keep track of how many women he had slept with.
Sometimes Chris would even sleep with other people's girlfriends.
He said: "There was one woman who used to stalk me and then her husband came knocking on my front door.
''Some of my cards had fallen out on the backseat of her car and he'd found them.
''But luckily a bouncer friend of mine, Croc, had come to visit and he told him, 'Chris's gone to Ireland."
Chris also had keys to the local Lion Hotel where he would let himself in when he had a girl to stay the night.
Despite his serial womanising Chris' own heart was broken by the mother of his son.
Reflecting on when he first met her, he said: "I'd seen this girl come through the door at Parr Hall with a bloke and I went 'wow!'
''She came over and sat next to me. And because I smoked Benson and Hedges then she thought I was well off.
''About a week later she came to the Carlton Club where I was collecting glasses and she just came up, threw her arms around me and kissed me. And that was it."
He added: "One night we made love on the Carlton Club stage. I put these two albums on, a Barry White album on one deck and the other one was Let's Get it On by Marvin Gaye and she said that's where my son was conceived."
Chris Culleton met the Rolling Stones when they played Parr Hall in Warrington in 1963 and says drummer Brian Jones tried to buy his waistcoat.
Chris said: "He came up to me and said 'would you like to sell it to me?' I'd brought a curtain remnant, a brocade in fancy colours, and I got this old woman in Longford to make it a waistcoat for me and she put fancy buttons on.
"And Brian was mad for it but I wouldn't sell it. I told him I got groups publicity and he said we could do with someone like you.
''Mick Jagger interrupted and said if you're interested, contact our office.
''So they offered me a job and that's how I ended up turning down a job with the Rolling Stones.
"I was going out with this girl and I didn't want to go to London and leave her.
"I was also offered a job on Radio Caroline, again I turned it down because I was going out with another girl then''I knew the government was going to clamp down on pirate radio. But that would have been the start - like it was for Tony Blackburn."
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