Mirren turned on by true friendship

OSCAR-winning actress and sex-symbol, Helen Mirren, 67, raised a few eyebrows this month when she suggested that sex does not make a marriage last.

Instead, she believes the secret is partnership.

Mirren was promoting her new movie, Hitchcock, in which she plays the director Alfred Hitchcock’s wife, Alma Reville, who was married to him for 53 years. She supported him throughout his long and successful career, but the relationship was sexless.