The 17-year love affair between Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell is in crisis after he was photographed leaving a massage parlour.

Miss Hawn, who had been planning to marry the Batman star, is expected to call the wedding off.

Pictures of Russell sneaking in and out of the establishment in Malibu were splashed across an American magazine.

The Tokyo Massage Centre on Pico Boulevard is staffed by four Asian women. They charge about £35 for a 30-minute rubdown but offer a variety of sexual services for extra cash.

Friends of Miss Hawn, 54, and Russell, 49, said they had been going through 'a difficult emotional time' in recent months.

Miss Hawn was on her own at the wedding of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas in New York last month.

Then she flew alone to Colorado to make plans for her daughter's wed-ding on New Year's Eve. Last month Miss Hawn's publicist Heidi Shaeffer dismissed reports that the couple were planning to separate.

'They're happier than they've ever been,' she said then. But she refused to confirm the wedding would go ahead.

One of the couple's friends said: 'God knows what Kurt was doing in a place like that.'

Miss Shaeffer refused to comment about the pictures, which were taken by a paparazzi photographer who saw Russell arrive at and leave the parlour. He was wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.

Russell's representatives also maintained a wall of silence.

The couple, who met on the set of the 1984 film Swingshift, have a 14-year-old son.

Miss Hawn has a daughter Kate, 21, and son Oliver, 24, from her four-year marriage to musician Bill Hudson.

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