Liza Minnelli wants to date an 18 year old

In an extract from her book Kids, Wait Until You Hear This! obtained by People magazine, she wrote: "Ideally, I'd like to date an older elegant man who dresses beautifully and is filthy rich.

"Then I'd like to date a 40-year-old guy who is passionate about something. I don't care what.

"Then I'd like to date an 18 year old, who I see twice a week and whose name I don't know."

Liza married the late David Gest in March 2002, but they separated in July the following year and divorced in 2007, and the Arthur actress claimed she felt like a "prisoner" during their marriage.

She wrote: "I clearly wasn't sober when I married this clown.

"He didn't just control everything I ate, from morning to night. he controlled the people I saw and spoke to on the phone.

"He screened my calls. In truth, I was his prisoner."

Liza also looked back on her "passionate" and "intense" affair with Scorsese, who had directed her in 1977's New York New York.

She wrote: "Truth be told, our love affair had more layers than a lasagna. We were both Italian. Passionate. Intense. Committed to our craft. We both had volcanic tempers. He was a diabolically handsome man who shared my love for film. I was a director's daughter."

But when she ran into him decades later, at the 2014 Academy Awards, her attempt to reach out to the director were snubbed.

She noted: "He turned away from me."

However, Liza had a more positive encounter when she got back in touch with Desi to apologise for breaking off their engagement decades earlier.

She revealed: "But Desi stopped me. 'Liza,' he said, 'All I remember is the love. Please let everything else go. I have.' Talk about a gentleman."