The $30 million toe in the water

Rupert Everett has built a reputation for his wild, hedonistic lifestyle, which saw him experiment with hreoin and sex work, as well as having an affair with the late Paula Yates while she was married to Bob Geldof.

Now 67, the actor, who stars in the new season of Rivals, has finally turned his back on his wild younger years, claiming he is 'less selfish'.

Having survived the excesses and heartbreaks of his past, the Daily Mail takes a look back at the chaotic life of one of Britain's most outspoken actors.

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The actor , who shot to fame in 1984, starring in Another Country before becoming a household name in the comedy My Best Friend's Wedding in 1997, left his privileged education at 16 and was a movie star by the time he reached 22.

The son of an army major, he dropped out of his posh Catholic boarding school and hotfooted it to London where he got high and had lots of sexual adventures.

Rupert enrolled in a drama school in London and to help support his means, he sold sex to make cash before before his behaviour got him expelled for insubordination.

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The actor said he 'sort of fell into' sex work when he was approached outside a London tube station .

At 18, his parents were worried for their son's future.

'My parents thought I was going off the rails, so they thought the best thing to do would be to send me to a good French family so I could learn French and straighten myself up,' Rupert told The Daily Mail.

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During his first day in the French capital , Rupert went out for a walk and ended up down a dodgy alleyway.

'In the Bois de Boulogne I found a truck with a transsexual sex worker living in it,' he said.

I made friends with her and I kind of lived in her world.

Around this time, the actor was also taking heroin, but his drug use never got in the way of his ambition.

'I moved into some things - just anything that was the opposite to my upper-middle-class kind of classical English upbringing,' he said.

'I took drugs - all the Hoorays took heroin - and adored sex.