© Getty Britt Ekland has opened up about her tumultuous relationship with the late Peter Sellers Two days after their first date – which was also their first meeting – the comedian Peter Sellers gave Britt Ekland a dachshund puppy called Pepper.
Ekland had just arrived in London from Sweden to be 20th Century Fox’s next big star. She was 21 years old and living at the Dorchester hotel; a dog was a ridiculous gift, she says.
So was Sellers’ previous largesse – every bloom in the hotel’s flower shop. “That was the way he wooed me.” Just 10 days after their first date, Ekland and Sellers – 17 years her senior – were married, and the puppy was lost in the whirlwind. “All these years, I always wondered: what happened to Pepper?” says Ekland,
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