'I had an affair with my stepmother when I was 12,' reveals George Hamilton Last updated at 1:43 PM on 17th October 2008 Hollywood star George Hamilton has revealed that he had a sexual relationship with his stepmother when he was just 12. The actor made the revelation in his new book Don't Mind If I Do: A Memoir, and spoke very casually about the affair yesterday during a promotional appearance on American chat show The View. He said: 'When I was very young, 12, I had a relationship with my stepmother. Yeah. She was about 28, 30. It was very normal.' Shock confession: George Hamilton revealed he had an affair with his stepmother during an interview on U.S. chat show The View 'My father never knew about it. It was very normal. She didn't make me feel bad about it.' He laughed off claims that he was abused, saying he was a very willing partner - even though the law in America and the UK insists minors consent is irrelevant in child abuse cases. 'The bottom line is it didn't feel abnormal. From my point of view it wasn't something so crazy - I don't think it warped me in my life.' He revealed the relationship started up again when he was older - and his band leader dad, George 'Spike' Hamilton, was dead. Illicit affair: George revealed a black and white image of his stepmother (circled) to the ladies on the show :arrow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc07weH_4Is Family scandal: George's stepmother with his father, George 'Spike' Hamilton 'It went on for a short period of time, when I was 12, and then strangely enough when I was of age and I was an actor in Hollywood I met her again, she was as beautiful, and we had a sort of follow up.' 'Gorgeous George': The actor was famous as a ladykiller during his heyday Asked where his father was when all this was happening, he said: 'My father passed away in the middle of it.' After his confession his son Ashley was brought onto the show, where he then poked fun at his father mostly over his trademark deep tan. 'The actually asked me to come on and roast my dad,' Ashley said. 'But I can't do that - he's already burnt.' He then joked: 'He just keeps getting darker as he gets older. It's like whatever Michael Jackson has he has the opposite.' He also said: 'Whenever I was bad he would punish me - by making me watch his movies.' He was also happy to poke fun at himself. 'I once said to him, 'Dad, don't you think it's pathetic that you're just known as the man with the tan?' 'He would reply, "Don't you think it's pathetic that you're just known as the son of the man with the tan?".' During his prime, 'Gorgeous George' wasn't known so much for his acting as his many female conquests, which he claimed number in the thousands. Over the years he was linked to actress Britt Ekland, Wendy Vanderbilt, ex-Iranian Princess Soraya and - most notably - Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of then President of the United States, Lyndon Johnson. He also shared close but 'purely platonic' relationships with Imelda Marcos, the wife of the exiled former Philippine leader and actress Elizabeth Taylor. At one point he even swapped blondes with another ladykiller, Rod Stewart. Rod married George's ex-wife, Alana, and George dated Rod's former girlfriend, Liz Treadwell. George's son Ashley was born in 1974 during his four year marriage to Alana. He has a younger son, George Thomas Hamilton, with Kimberly Blackford. George was born in Memphis in 1939 to Hamilton Snr and his oft-married Southern belle mother, Ann "Teeny" Stevens Potter Hamilton Hunt Spalding. His parents were divorced 'when mother found father in bed with the girl singer in his band,' he has previously said. George went to some 25 schools in all, because of his father's job, with stints in Arkansas, Massachusetts, New York, California and even Mexico home. After acting in school plays, an introduction from a family friend, silent screen star Mae Murray, sent him off to Hollywood in 1957. He landed parts in 1959's Crime and Punishment and Home from the Hill and then, as he tells it, studio firm MGM offered him a contract - 'seven years at hard labor for a very low salary.' His most notable credit in recent years is a stint on the hit U.S show Dancing With The Stars in 2006.