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Alex Diggins

  • Alex Diggins
    I advertised myself as a ‘rental friend’. Then a man asked me to lick his toes

    Brendan Fraser plays a hired companion in the new film Rental Family, but Brits in the industry say the practice is nothing to laugh about

    Wed, 14 Jan 2026

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