Beloved Australian actress Pia Miranda shocked a TV audience this week as the former child star made an X-rated confession during a live TV interview.
The Looking for Alibrandi actress, 51, revealed where she keeps her ‘grown-up toys’ and credited the items as the secret to her long-lasting marriage during an interview with Shaun Micallef for his ABC show Eve of Destruction.
Pia jokingly used Australian children’s character Humphrey B. Bear as a euphemism for sex toys in the very candid interview that aired Wednesday.
‘You still had a close connection with Humphrey even after you were married?’ Micallef asked the actress.
‘Oh no, I still do,’ Pia joked.
‘Where does he live?’ Micallef asked.
‘He can’t sleep in the bed because my husband would get no action,’ she admitted.
‘I sometimes get him out when my husband’s away,’ she continued. ‘He’s just in the top cupboard, with the good handbags, and some of the adult stuff.’
Pia then hinted she kept him with the ‘grown-up toys’ in the closet.
The actress then turned to the audience for support, asking, ‘You know what I’m talking about don’t you?’
‘Has everyone got a top toy cupboard? Or is it just me?
‘Oh god there’s not many people,’ she joked after the audience remained silent.
Pia, who was 26-years-old when filming for Looking for Alibrandi began, won an AACTA Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the FCCA Best Actor award in 2000 for her iconic role as seventeen-year-old Josephine Alibrandi.
Then in March 2001, she married her boyfriend Luke Hanigan, lead singer and guitarist of the Australian band Lo-Tel, at the Elvis Presley chapel in Las Vegas.
Pia and Luke began dating in 2000 and tied the knot four months into their relationship.
The couple share two children: Lilly, 13, and James, 9.