Sheila Vogel-Coupe knows a trick or two and I am not talking about bridge.

The 85-year-old St Johns’ Wood resident was proclaimed by the Sun this week as “Britain’s oldest prostitute”, who can command £250 an hour for her services.

The grandma of X-Factor contestant Katy Waissel has been interviewed for a Channel 4 documentary My Grandmother the Escort due to go out next Thursday.

It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “the oldest profession”. Next week: the geriatric gigolo from Golders Green...