Mr Perkins said: "I need the money to support my family. It is for a select few people who I will never name and shame. He said while the core story of the book is true, he admitted that some details had been "embellished" by the ghost writer to make it more entertaining - particularly that he was married at the time.

Jim Perkins aka Ben Foster has spoken about his life as a gigolo. Picture: Neil Didsbury (Image: Archant) Details about his encounters are covered in his book 'Gigolo: Inside The Secret World of the Super Rich', which is up for a People's Book Prize.At that point, my life was 'this is what we are going to do and this is how you are going to do it'," Mr Perkins said. I personally thought this would be my life for the rest of it, this was it. But in their mind they wanted to have a bit of fun and I was their piece of meat." While Mr Perkins used the pseudonym Ben Foster for the book, which was written by a ghost writer, he has today decided to reveal his true identity in the hope of gaining more local support.

Jim Perkins, 44 from Bradwell aka Ben Foster has spoken about his life as a gigolo. Picture: Neil Didsbury (Image: Archant) I thought: 'this is great, this is where I would like to take the therapies, this is where I would like to go'. He claimed he was given a phone and was driven around to large houses to provide his "treatments" to women. Jim Perkins, 44 from Bradwell has spoken about his life as a gigolo. Picture: Neil Didsbury (Image: Archant) They replaced me for a younger model, from what I gather. Everything was under their rule," Mr Perkins said.He now works as a carer, but supplements his income by providing his services to female clients, mostly from around Norwich and Attleborough.