For decades, Tony Blackburn has told the story his way.
A glamorous life.
A string of conquests.
A “love square” so outrageous it sounded like something from a Carry On film.
But now, for the first time, the woman at the centre of that story has spoken — and her truth couldn’t be more different.
The Neighbours Who Became Each Other’s World
In the mid-1970s, Radio 1 star Tony Blackburn and TV actress wife Tessa Wyatt were living the dream in Berkshire.
Next door? A young actress named Margot Webb and her husband Roger — a successful composer writing for hit shows like George and Mildred and working with legends such as Shirley Bassey.
The couples became inseparable.
Summer afternoons by neighbouring pools.
Croquet on manicured lawns.
Children running between houses.
Even a few donkeys wandering the gardens.
From the outside, it looked idyllic.
The “Love Square” That Tony Wouldn’t Stop Talking About
Years later, Blackburn would claim that behind closed doors the two couples were tangled in a secret web of affairs — that he was seeing Margot while insisting her husband Roger was involved with Tessa.
Last week, he revived the story again on a podcast, joking that it was like a “Home Counties version of Celebrity Wife Swap.”
But this time, the past refused to stay buried.
“He Was The Worst Lover I Ever Had”
Now 77, Margot has finally decided she’s had enough.
She admits the affair happened — but says the fantasy Tony has sold the world is a lie.
“I haven’t had many lovers,” she said quietly.
“But Tony was the worst one I ever had.”
She describes herself then as shy, inexperienced, flattered by attention she didn’t fully understand.
“Sleeping with him was the part of our dates I dreaded most,” she added.
“It was all over before it had even started.”
The Stories He Told… And The Life She Remembers
In his memoirs, Blackburn wrote about wild nude pool parties and steamy garden escapades.
Margot calls it fiction.
“We wore swimming costumes. We played croquet. The kids splashed about. That was it. He just made the rest up to sound exciting.”
She remembers a man obsessed with appearances — spending an hour in front of the mirror, even applying mascara to his thinning hair.
“He was deeply insecure. That made him difficult to live with.”
The Aftermath That Never Truly Ended
The affair shook both marriages.
Margot briefly left Roger, but they found their way back to each other — staying together until his death from a brain tumour in 2002.
Then tragedy struck again when their daughter Julia was killed in a car crash aged just 34.
“All I have left of my husband are memories,” Margot said.
“I don’t want them rewritten for someone else’s entertainment.”
Why She’s Speaking Now
Tony Blackburn’s recent comments reopened wounds she had carried in silence for more than half a century.
She isn’t asking for sympathy.
She isn’t rewriting history for attention.
She just wants the truth to stand.
“I stayed quiet for 60 years,” she said.
“But I won’t let him turn my life into a joke.”
Sometimes, the real story isn’t the one that gets told the loudest —
it’s the one that waits patiently, until it can no longer stay silent.
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