BRITAIN'S most celebrated madame has broken all records at a top ladies' dinner club.

Cynthia Payne - Madame Cyn - notorious in the 1960s for her sex-for-luncheon-vouchers deals for businessmen, will pack them in at Pendle's Fencegate restaurant on Thursday night.

Fears that the all-women Nelson Dinner Club had made a mistake inviting her to be guest speaker, and that the some ladies would boycott the event, have proved unfounded.

In fact the woman, jailed for keeping a house of ill repute, has brought the biggest response for tickets in the club's history, with scores of applications for guest seats turned down.

Demand soared from the moment word got out that Madame Cyn, featured tonight in a new BBC-2 documentary series Mistresses, would be reminiscing about her life at the monthly dinner.

Response has far outstripped other top bookings of the past, like Frankie Vaughan, Henry Cooper and Val Doonican.

Mrs Payne, whose story was featured in the film Personal Services, starring Julie Walters, is now one of the country's most popular after-dinner speakers.

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