Article: A love affair that shocked the world; TELLY.(Media)

MEN leaving their wives for much younger women has become a clichY over the years.

But what about an older man dumping his extraordinarily glamorous other half in favour of somebody who, although 22 years his junior, could certainly never have been described as drop-dead gorgeous?

It may sound cruel, but that's what happened when Laurence Olivier left Vivien Leigh for Joan Plowright in the late '50s.

Now the story of their love affair is being told in ...

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