BBC RADIO legend ‘Diddy’ David Dickinson has opened up about an affair he had with a sex worker behind his wife’s back, and said that “having children spoils a marriage”.
The well known broadcaster, 87, confessed all as he opened up about his astonishing personal life.
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David, who joined Radio 1 in the early seventies alongside other veteran DJs such as Tony Blackburn and Noel Edmunds, is a huge name at the BBC.
Today the former Top Of The Pops legend has talked about the affair he had behind his first wife’s back.
David wed make-up artist Sheila Moore in 1962, when he was just 24.
The couple went on to have two children, Jane and David Jr, before splitting up in 1970.
However, David, who is known as ‘Diddy’ thanks to a nickname given to him by the late Ken Dodd, has revealed all about an affair he had when he was wed to Shelia.
Speaking to this week’s Best magazine, he confessed: “I was happily married. Until I fell in love with someone else.
“I went to meet her at Liverpool Street station. She was sitting on her suitcase wearing a fur coat, which she told me later she’d borrowed.
“I just looked at her and thought, wow. I think if anything spoils a marriage, it’s children. Suddenly, the man is taking a back seat.
“Then he meets someone young free and single and thinks, ‘Crikey, I could go back to that happy state I was in before.'”
Continuing his story, David said: “My wife found out because I talked about Roz a lot. I was head over heels. I left my wife and children, and we lived together for four years.”
Speaking about his relationship with an escort David said: “She asked if I would open her new shop, and how much I’d charge. I said ‘£500’.
“She told me she charged £100 for her services, so ‘If you give me five I’ll give you one.’
“That sounded fair, so I collected the first one that evening.
“I thought that would be it. But we’d become very fond of each other.
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“She was still working at the club and I was getting in too deep.”
David is now married to second wife Dreena, an aerobics teacher, who he was set up with on a blind date.
They were wed in 1993, and have been together ever since.
Reflecting on the early years of their relationship, Dreena told the Mail: “There was quite a brouhaha when we got together.
“My friends did say, ‘You can’t marry him. He is a womaniser’, but we’ve been together for 40 years now, married for 30.
“And there are no regrets there.”
While David told Best magazine: “Dreena is the wind beneath my wings. One of the reasons it works is she doesn’t take any c**p from me!”
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