Producers of the James Bond movies had some anxious moments when they hired George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery as the dashing 007—but then worried that he might be gay!

So they sent a girl up to his apartment to find out—-and were reassured to discover that that he wasn’t.

Lazenby, who had been a model and featured in television commercials before making his Bond debut in the 1969 release On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, recalled: “They sent a girl up to my apartment to make sure I wasn’t gay. A little while later they had their answer. I sure as hell wasn’t.”

Producers of the James Bond movies had some anxious moments when they hired George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery as the dashing 007—but then worried that he might be gay!So they sent a girl up to his apartment to find out—-and were reassured to discover that that he wasn’t.

Lazenby, who had been a model and featured in television commercials before making his Bond debut in the 1969 release On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, recalled: “They sent a girl up to my apartment to make sure I wasn’t gay. A little while later they had their answer. I sure as hell wasn’t.”