Tony Blackburn has reflected on the turbulent early years of his love life, revealing that his first wife only discovered he’d cheated on her after picking up his autobiography. The veteran broadcaster, now 82, looked back on the breakdown of his marriage to actress Tessa Wyatt during a candid podcast chat — and admitted the way she learned the truth was, in his words, “awful”. Tony spoke on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast, where he was asked whether he settled down once he married at 29. He replied: “Yes I did. Although we both had affairs .”

He then went further, explaining that the couple’s infidelity became far more complicated than he ever imagined. As he put it: “She didn’t know I was having an affair with the next door neighbour, and then she was having an affair with her [t

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