She went on to have a second son, Jason (nicknamed Ace), with actor Leigh Lawson, now Twiggy’s husband. “I didn’t see the age gap as a problem because I was living in the moment and thought we would go on for ever but Roy always said he knew it was possible we would split,” says Hayley. When she married him in 1971 the 33-year age gap was seen by some as a cradle-snatching scandal and the marriage lasted only seven years. So her attraction to older suitor Boulting was perhaps hardly surprising. Older men were important role models for her with the avuncular Walt Disney often inviting her to lunch with his executives and Maurice Chevalier, her co-star from 1962 movie In Search Of The Castaways, making her feel “like a woman because he was so gallant and charming”. Hayley’s choice of partners has changed over the years. Now, like her Wild At Heart character, she’s a youthfully glamorous granny and seizes every chance to spend time with Crispian’s sons, four-year-old Keshava and Haridas, one. It makes you realise, especially as you get older, how important it is to follow a good diet and have a healthy approach to life, to be relaxed and happy and laugh as much as you can,” she says.Ī former bulimia sufferer who followed Juliet to Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham, she had conquered the disorder by the time she gave birth to Crispian in 1973. In the ITV1 series set in South Africa, Hayley plays Caroline Du Plessis, mother-in-law of Stephen Tompkinson’s vet hero Danny. While undergoing treatment her older sister Juliet joined the cast of Wild At Heart as Hayley’s screen sister, keeping the storyline open for her return to the drama. Slim and fit at 66 with willowy legs and the girlish voice her long-term fans remember, Hayley has made a full recovery from the breast cancer she contracted in 2008. “The cast of Wild At Heart are a family because we’re all in the same boat, turning up at the make-up truck on location in Johannesburg at five in the morning and looking ghastly,” she laughs.
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