Fern Britton opens up about sex attack

Fern Britton has spoken out about a sex attack ordeal when she was younger.

The This Morning presenter had handed in two lost dogs to a local police station in Cambridge when she was 21.

She later returned to the station, where the duty sergeant told her that the owner of the animals had collected them and would like to thank her for returning them.

After a pleasant first meeting, Britton ended up inviting the man round for dinner at her flat, where he started to make advances.

"Before I knew what was happening he was up on his feet and trying to kiss me - pushing me against the wall, then down on to the floor," the star writes in her autobiography, serialised in the Daily Mail.

"It was a long time before I told anyone. I knew I had put myself in a dangerous position ... I'd invited this stranger into the flat so it was my fault it had happened. I had agreed to a dinner date. I had let him do what he did."

She added that she has since "blotted" the incident out of her memory and got on with her life.