BBC Radio 2 star Tony Blackburn has revealed that he and his first wife were involved in a 'love square' with their married neighbours. The 82-year-old DJ made the admission on Gyles Brandreth's Rosebud podcast, claiming that both he and Tessa Wyatt had affairs with the couple next door.
Blackburn said: 'She didn't know I was having an affair with the next door neighbour, and then she was having an affair with her [the neighbour's] husband.' The couple married in 1972 and had a son, Simon, the following year before divorcing in 1977. Blackburn stated that Tessa left him for actor Richard O'Sullivan.
The veteran broadcaster, who claims to have slept with 250 women, said his wife only discovered his infidelity when she read his autobiography. He described the book, written by a ghostwriter, as 'too honest' and admitted he never read it before publication.
Blackburn, who was the first voice heard on BBC Radio 1 in 1967, has no plans to retire. He told Lorraine presenter Kate Garraway: 'I love what I'm doing so what's the point in retiring? I love doing Radio 2.'
