The young poet lord byron had everything. He was beautiful, aristocratic, talented and sexually irresistible. By his mid twenties, he was the most famous man in england the world's first celebrity. Women flung themselves at him. Men wanted to be like him.he lived for sensation and sexual excess, indulging his darkest cravings and scandalising the nation until he could only be satiated by a passionate affair with his own half sister. Too late, he discovered that even a celebrity can go too far.