Relationships: Bedroom barbs from a woman scorned

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Ingrid Tarrant dished hers out at Arctic temperatures to her ex, the DJ-turned-gameshow host Chris. Not since Medea, the wronged wife of Jason the Argonaut, exacted her vengeance on the Ancient Greek treasure-seeker by killing their two sons, has a jilted woman packed such a punch.

Ingrid's choice of retribution was to tell eight million-odd Sun readers how her cheating husband was a "clumsy, naive lover" who struggled in the manhood department. Ouch. But there's more: apparently the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host had a Viagra dependency. Far from having the libido of a lion, a claim he once made, he was a serious little blue pill popper.

In graphic detail, Ingrid divulged the details of their (non) sex lives in an attempt to set the record straight after "a pal" of Chris's claimed he was forced into his seven-year affair with teacher Fiona McKechnie because his now estranged wife had imposed a seven-year sex ban.

All "lies", evidently. Besides, if the bedroom spark had been extinguished there was a simple explanation: Chris, the mad-keen angler, would regularly hit the sack smelling of the carp and pike that he had caught that day.

"I would beg him to at least wash the dried fish blood from his hands," Ingrid recalled.

And she went further, by calling for Chris to be stripped of his MBE. "I really do feel that a man who can lie about what goes on in a bedroom with his wife does not deserve to be honoured by the Queen."

In the annals of scorned women, Ingrid's attack is right up there with Lady Sarah Graham-Moon's.

The wronged Lady Moon hit a home run for the sisterhood when she wreaked revenge on her philandering husband by taking the scissors to 32 of his bespoke suits and giving away 70 bottles of his vintage claret.

Just in case Sir Peter didn't get the message, she also hurled paint over his BMW.

Wronged exes are the stuff of silver-screen legend. Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler hit box office records when their film, First Wives Club, opened back in 1996. But just in case any women out there who are playing away from home are feeling complacent, they should heed this recent revelation.

Scientists at University College, London found that men are more vindictive than women when it comes to revenge. A series of experiments showed that male and female brains react differently when they see the people who have slighted them experience mild pain: the men tend to take satisfaction while the women felt empathy. But not the soon-to-be former Mrs Tarrant.

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