C4 to film oldest virgin's first time sex
Last updated at 15:04pm on 1st December 2006

C4 to film oldest virgin's first time sex

A new Channel 4 reality show will feature a real-life 40-year-old virgin - and audiences will see his introduction to the joys of sex.

Producers plan to film a retired vicar - who has not yet been named - being taught how to have sex and cameras will be there to capture the moment when he puts what he has practised into action.

Producers have sent him, along with three other virgins, to an Amsterdam sex school. The four novices will spend two months learning "the art of intimacy" in the sin city. They will be coached by a series of sex therapists who, at the end of the teaching period, will deflower the foursome.

Cameras will follow the entire process - including filming the final act.

The contestants are aged from 20 upwards and the retired vicar has been dubbed by producers as "the real 40-year-old virgin" after the character played by Steve Carell in the hit movie.

An insider on the Zig Zag Productions' programme, titled Virgin School, said: "We will show as much as we're allowed."

According to The Sun, the producers are claiming that the show is designed to be educational. An insider told the paper: "There is nothing wrong with these guys but they just can't seem to get laid.

"One of them has just developed a phobia of female intimacy after he kissed a girl when he was young and developed glandular fever." The programme promises to be a real-life version of the film The 40 Year Old Virgin, which came out last year. In it, nerdy virgin Andy Stitzer, played by Steve Carell, finds the pressure mounting on him to have sex for the first time when he meets an attractive single mother.

The show is set to air in the New Year as part of a series of programmes exploring virginity. Channel 4 has recently caused controversy with plans for a week of programmes about masturbation. The centrepiece will be footage of hundreds of people pleasuring themselves in public.

-- Edited by Ruby at 11:34, 2006-12-01

-- Edited by Ruby at 11:34, 2006-12-01