How to make money in the sky!

International media over the weekend has been awash with the news that Lisa Robertson, the Qantas flight attendant that vehemently denied having sex with Ralph Fiennes has quickly changed her story to admitting having unprotected sex with the actor in the toilet of a Qantas flight to India and that she stayed with him in his Mumbai hotel.

Interestingly, Ms Robertson broke the news the UK’s The Mail on Sunday newspaper, reportedly after signing a six figure sum deal for her story.

The actor also broke his silence on the scandal, saying through his spokeswoman that Ms Robertson was the sexual aggressor and that he was responding to her advances.  His spokeswoman said that was the only comment he would make and as far as they were concerned, the matter was closed.

Ms Robertson revealed in The Mail on Sunday the intimate details of how she met Fiennes on board the Darwin to Mumbai flight and what happened when she then met him again later in his hotel room.

In a rather Mills and Boon like story, The Mail on Sunday reports that Ms Robertson felt like a teenager…………she had seen The English Patient 20 times…………..but Fiennes soon put her at ease, coming to sit with her in the crew rest area during her break………….. she melted as they began to kiss and she motioned him towards the adjacent toilet because she was worried about getting caught.

She added, “I just stood up, reached down for his hand and told him to follow me.” ………”We went into the toilet and locked the door and off came much of our clothes……..after some foreplay, Fiennes moved against the wall for 10 minutes of “amazing” sex.”

She added that later, in Mumbai, Fiennes had greeted her at the door of his hotel room dressed in just a towel, which he dropped as soon as the door was closed.  She says that the couple had dinner, followed by some “boring” chit-chat about the Samuel Beckett play Fiennes had been performing in Sydney, before having protected sex twice more that night and once in the morning, with Fiennes issuing the classic line, “I’m going to have to kick you out now.”

Woman’s Day has secured the Australian print rights and reportedly will run its interview with Ms Robertson today, with Qantas not surprisingly declining to comment on how Ms Robertson’s revelations would affect her job, her having been suspended pending an investigation.

Fiennes has reacted angrily to Ms Robertson’s statement to the airline that he followed her into the toilet on the flight and virtually forced himself on her, his spokeswoman saying, “This woman seduced him on the plane, she was the sexual aggressor.”

While Ms Robertson has been stood down pending an investigation by the airline, with the sounds of the cash register ringing in her ears, she has engaged celebrity agent Harry M. Miller to sell her story, saying that she had contacted the actor shortly after their encounter on the advice of her lawyer, to help her save her job, but he had refused to help her corroborate a story that she was helping him with a lost contact lens, adding, “He made me feel like a low-life, like I was asking him for money or something”.

In flight service and entertainment could take on a whole new meaning.

Report by The Mole