PARIS - The former film star, Brigitte Bardot, says the French extreme right leader Mr Jean Marie Le Pen is a "lovely, intelligent man".
Bardot, who abruptly left the silver screen 23 years ago to become an animal rights campaigner, revealed her far right political views and also details of her sex life in the conservative daily Le Figaro yesterday, which published extracts from her memoirs Initiales B.B. (Initials B.B.).