In a new television documentary to mark the half-century of the famous spy film franchise, NSW-born Lazenby, now 73, admitted he was tested ahead of his sole Bond role.
"They sent a girl up to my apartment to make sure I wasn't gay," said Lazenby, who starred in the 1969 film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
"A little while later they had their answer. I sure as hell wasn't."
A self-assured model, whose most prominent work had been a television commercial for Big Fry chocolate, Lazenby had been an interesting choice for the role, taking the Bond reins from Sean Connery, Britain's Sunday Express newspaper reported.
The Australian went on to be labelled a notorious womaniser, the tabloid said.
"Suddenly I was James Bond and you can imagine what that did to me," Lazenby told the documentary-makers.
"I don't want to brag, but I had at least one girl a day.
"There was a tent on set where the stuntmen used to keep the mattresses they fell on in fight scenes. It was a good place to take a chick if you were in a hurry."
The documentary, Everything or Nothing, is due for British release in early October.
