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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...chael-Winners-outrageous-life-words.html For some reason I never quite understood, Jill was desperate to become a wife.
‘The minute I’m 21, I’m going to be married,’ she’d told me. ‘I’d like to marry you, Michael.’
‘I’m far too young to marry,’ I replied. ‘I have no money. I have no prospects. I can’t take that on right now.’ In that case, she told me, she’d marry someone else. Ridiculous, I thought: she didn’t know any other suitable candidates.
That year, Jill threw a big 21st birthday party, to which she invited all her film friends. You may find this unbelievable, but I was too shy to go. Instead, I went on holiday with my parents to France.
When I got back, I went straight round to Jill’s. In her large living room, a man stood silhouetted at one of the windows.
It was David McCallum, a young actor who’d later find fame in the TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. That night, I realised that the girl I loved was slipping away from me.
Two weeks later, I got up early and bought the Sunday papers. That’s how I learned that Jill had married McCallum at a register office in South London. I leaned against the door of my flat, weeping.
A short time later, the telephone rang. It was Jill. ‘Have you seen the newspapers?’ she asked. ‘What do you think?’
‘It’s ridiculous,’ I said. ‘You wanted to marry me three weeks ago.’
‘I know it is,’ said Jill. ‘I don’t love him. I still love you. But I told you I was going to get married, and I have.’
Within weeks, she was bombarding me with phone calls, begging me to meet her. I agreed only once. We lay on Hampstead Heath together, and I fondled her bosoms one last time. Some months later, I was filling up my car with petrol in West London when a man got out of the car behind me and came over.
It was McCallum, and I thought he was going to hit me.
‘Michael,’ he said. ‘I want to thank you. I know how many times Jill telephoned you. Thank you for not seeing her.’ Then he got back into his car and drove off.
I didn’t speak to Jill again for 14 years. By then she was with her second husband, Charles Bronson.
It's still great to see him as Dr Mallard in NCIS and still going strong at 84. As a kid during the war he lived in the next village, 
