Stone then urged the audience, which included her 19-year-old son Roan, to cross their legs too, and quipped: ‘T here was a time when all I was, was a joke.’ ‘I said, “sure”, I didn’t know this moment would change my life.’ Sharon Stone set pulses racing in 1992 thriller Basic Instinct. Speaking onstage after accepting her award, she said: ‘Some years ago I was sitting on a sound stage, and my director said, “Can you hand me your underpants because we’re seeing them in the scene and you shouldn’t have underpants on but we won’t see anything”. Sharon Stone, 61, recreated the infamous leg-crossing scene from Basic Instinct.

Now, the age-defying star has done it again, albeit with underwear this time, at the recent GQ Men of the Year Awards as she accepted the gong for Woman of the Year.