A woman has been sacked from her job at American Express after she accidentally invited a manager to a saucy party.

Rachael Fountain, who worked at Amex in Brighton for ten months, inadvertently emailed a finance director who had the same name as a friend.

Rachael and boyfriend Pascal Sharples were featured on the Channel 4 show Sex Tips for Girls last week.

To celebrate, they organised a sex-themed "porn party" at their home in Queen's Gardens, North Laine, Brighton, on Saturday.

The email featured a picture of a Fifties pin-up and invited people to come dressed as "pornstars, prossies, pimps, gimps, flashers, slutty schoolgirls and anything sleazy and cheesy".

Rachael went dressed as a Playboy bunny girl and Pascal, 24, as the construction worker from the Village People.

More than 100 revellers arrived in fancy dress and were treated to a viewing of the programme.

Rachael, 22, said she was called in by her employment agency Adecco prior to the party and suspended.

She said: "The friend I meant to invite doesn't work for Amex. When I typed in her name, I figured it would pull her from my personal email addresses rather than the company address book.

"Apparently, I had sent the other woman things before, asking her for dinner and general chit-chat but she never emailed me back saying I had the wrong address.

"I was called in by Adecco, who showed me an email a finance director had received. I said she wasn't invited and thought it had been forwarded to her.

"But they said I was being suspended and would have to clear my desk immediately.

"None of the managers at Amex said a peep to me throughout the whole thing."

Rachael received a written confirmation of her sacking from Adecco for gross misconduct.

It said she had infringed "the Amex electronic communications policy by using Amex systems to send an inappropriate personal email".

An American Express spokeswoman said there was a range of disciplinary procedures and such an email could be viewed as gross misconduct.