Celebrity sex tapes

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee

The original sex tape. This benchmark vid was taken during the couple's honeymoon in Cancun and forms part of their holiday footage rather than a dedicated romp fest.

This is an honest and classic piece of star sex tapery, without which we might not have the sex tape phenomenon. Is that a good thing? You decide...

Paris Hilton and Rick Salomon

One Night In Paris shot Hilton to superstar status and made the heiress a household name.

Former boyfriend Salomon filmed the night-vision hit and when it was leaked he decided to cash in.

After a few mean words and law suits, it was agreed Paris would also recieve a percentage of the profits. But she claims that she donates the 'dirty money' to charity. What an angel.

Rob Lowe

Hidden somewhere at the back of the celeb sex tape cupboard, this dusty old relic is another classic.

The controversy wasn't so much over the fact that Lowe had made a sex tape, but rather his choice of co-star and backdrop.

While attending the Democratic National Convention in the late '80s, Lowe videotaped himself getting it on with two women, one of whom was just 16 years old.

Around the same time, another tape of Lowe was released, in which he is involved in a good old-fashioned menage-a-trois (in Paris, no less) with a female model and young male friend.

Rob has been to rehab for sex addiction and has managed to style-out the disgrace over the years.

Colin Farrell and Nicole Narain

Farrell has built up quite a reputation for himself as a Hollywood playboy, so when a video of him and his former lover Playboy Playmate Nicole Narain leaked out, people were eager to see how he, erm, measured-up.

This video is popular because it really does nothing but bolster the image Farrell has created for himself.

John Leslie & Abi Titmuss

Today, Titmuss is a glamour model/actress/TV and radio presenter/all-round-self-promoting-celebrity.

Once upon a time, she was just a simple nurse and behind-closed-doors sexual animal...

Then she met former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie. Then Leslie was accused of a series of assaults against women. Then Titmuss faced massive media exposure and finally a video was leaked of Titmuss and Leslie enjoying late night sex sessions with other women.

Titmuss shoots to lads' mag fame, Leslie's career lies in tatters, the pair split and Britain rejoices at the emergence of a brand new shameless celebrity. The cycle is complete. Thanks sex tape...

Dustin Diamond

Who is Dustin Diamond? we hear you screech... Pun very much intended.

Diamond played lovable geek Samuel 'Screech' Powers in '80s/90s American high-school comedy Saved By the Bell.

In 2006, a tape dubbed Screeched or Saved by the smell leaked out and showed Diamond engaging in various sexual acts (some involving, ahem, excrement on the face) with a bride-to-be and her bridesmaid.

But Diamond didn't kick up much of a stink and rumours spread that he engineered the tape's release as a publicity stunt.

Leslie Grantham

They didn't call him Dirty Den for nothing.

Eastenders veteran Grantham has led something of a varied life; a convicted murderer, he got into acting during his ten years in prison.

During his second stint on Eastenders in 2004 he exposed himself, via webcam, to an undercover reporter.

Photos of Grantham pleasuring himself and sucking his finger in a suggestive manner hit the tabloids and it was game over for dirty, dirty Den.