‘He was raring to go’: Petula Clark, 86, reveals ‘Elvis Presley angled for a threesome’ with her and Karen Carpenter’ after inviting pair into his dressing room following show
- Petula Clark claims Elvis Presley propositioned her to threesome in 1970s
- She was visiting him with her friend Karen Carpenter following a concert
- Miss Clark said she didn’t find Presley ‘attractive’ but he was ‘raring to go’
- She married Claude Wolff in 1961 but has admitted they have ‘drifted apart’
She rose to fame as a saccharine sweet wartime child star.
But now Petula Clark has revealed that she was made a rather salacious offer by Elvis Presley when she was a young pop starlet, which she turned down.
According to the British singer, 86, The King propositioned her to a threesome with her friend Karen Carpenter when they visited him in his dressing room following a concert.
Elvis Presley (left, in Hawaii in 1973) is said to haeve propositioned Petula Clark (right, in London in 2006) to a threesome when she was a young pop starlet, which she turned down
Miss Clark said that the rock superstar was ‘raring to go’ but she rejected the offer as she didn’t find Presley ‘attractive’ and she wanted to preserve Miss Carpenter’s innocence.
‘He was raring to go. Karen was lovely, but she was kind of innocent. I felt sort of responsible for her, so I got her out of there,’ she told The Guardian.
‘Then I looked around, and Elvis was at the door, and he looked at me, like: ‘I’m going to get you one day.’
Miss Clark has insisted that Presley never did ‘get her’ and that she has no regrets about turning down the proposition as she ‘didn’t find him attractive.’
Petula Clark with her husband Claude Wolff and their children Katherine, now 56, and Patrick, now 47, following her first night in The Sound of Music at the Apollo Theatre in London in 1981
She added: ‘Oh, it was when he was at his best. But he was almost too much.’
US singer Karen Carpenter died in 1983 due to complications resulting from anorexia
Miss Clark befriended Miss Carpenter in 1969 when the pair met at the Los Angeles premiere of Goodbye, Mr Chips. The American singer died in 1983 due to complications resulting from anorexia.
Miss Clark married French publicist Claude Wolff in 1961, but has admitted they have ‘drifted apart’ and now lead mostly separate lives, despite still being married.
The 1960s pop star still lives with her spouse in Geneva, and has described their current relationship as ‘difficult to explain’.
‘He has his life and I have mine. How can you talk about that? Personal relationships are complicated, and it’s very difficult to explain that to the world,’ said.
Last year Miss Clark revealed that she had found love again with another man, but doesn’t appear to be set to divorce Wolff any time soon.
Miss Clark, pictured singing at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1974, still lives with her spouse in Geneva, and has described their current relationship as ‘difficult to explain’
‘There is someone and it’s very nice and Claude knows about it. There’s no secret,’ she said on Loose Women.
Miss Clark sings in her show ‘Petula and Songs of Love’ on BBC television in 1977
‘We became friends first and the romantic side happened later. I think that’s pretty good too, because it’s not a frantic passion thing. It’s good to be friends with your man.’
The singer – who is one of the bestselling British female solo artists of all time – married French publicist Wolff in the UK back in 1961 after a whirlwind love affair and they began a ‘partnership.’
She relocated to Paris to live with him and the couple became parents to Patrick, 47, Katherine, 56, and Barbara, 58.
Miss Clark said that she still feels a ‘mother’s guilt’ about being away from her children for periods of time during her career and has expressed her concerns about her parenting to them now they are adults.
‘They said: ‘What are you talking about? We had a great time,’ she said.
Miss Clark married French publicist Claude Wolff in 1961, but has admitted they have ‘drifted apart’. They are pictured in 1985
Elvis Presley strums an acoustic guitar in 1962 at MGM Studios in Culver City, California
She said that that her husband and nannies shouldered much of the parenting responsibilities for the children when they were young.
‘They weren’t always easy choices – and leaving the children was always traumatic,’ she said.
Miss Clark rose to fame as a child star after she began singing on BBC Radio during World War II but struggled to break away from the image when she became a teenager.
‘I think it was part of a moment in people’s wartime lives that they wanted to keep precious. Me becoming a woman – they didn’t want to see that,’ she said.
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