Porn industry has made me a prude, says Theroux

Documentary-maker Louis Theroux has said years of hanging out with swingers and porn stars has made him “a puritanical person”.

The 42-year-old presenter, who has shared a hot-tub at a swingers’ party and filmed in a brothel, has just returned to Los Angeles to film some of the porn stars he met for his Weird Weekends show in 1997.

He told the Radio Times: “A lot of performers, I would say most, have had some chaos or turbulence in their upbringing, perhaps connected with their parents. But the porn industry then exacerbates it, stores up more problems.”