‘Tony Blackburn was the worst lover I ever had’: Ex-neighbour hits again at DJ’s boasts of four-way affair after he claimed to have bedded 500 ladies

He is the Seventies DJ who boasted about bedding 500 women, but last night the neighbour at the centre of Tony Blackburn‘s ‘love square’ revelations hit back – calling him the worst lover she had ever had.

Margot Webb, a former actress, told The Mail on Sunday that she was fed up with his ‘endless bragging’ about their short-lived relationship.

Blackburn, 82, spoke of the bizarre ‘love square’ this month to Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast, describing it as ‘our own Home Counties version of Celebrity Wife Swap’. 

He claimed that while he was sleeping with Mrs Webb, her husband was having an affair with his wife, actress Tessa Wyatt. Ms Wyatt, 77, subsequently denied her affair.

Mrs Webb, now in her late 70s, said: ‘He’s so boastful. He’s talking about something that happened nearly 50 years ago.

‘Everyone knows what he got up to, so why does he keep going on about it? It’s horrible.’

She said she had felt ‘flattered’ by the DJ’s attentions, adding: ‘I haven’t had that many lovers, but Tony was the worst one I ever had. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am.

‘He didn’t have a clue. To be honest with you – sleeping with him was always the part of our date I looked forward to least.’

Pictured: Tony Blackburn and Tessa Wyatt in 1972. They were married for five years before divorcing in 1977

Pictured: Margot Webb, a former actress,who  told The Mail on Sunday that she was fed up with Tony Blackburn’s ‘endless bragging’ about their short-lived relationship

Calling him ‘vain’, she added: ‘He would spend an hour in front of the mirror in the morning, putting mascara on his bald patch. He wouldn’t go out in the rain. Tony can be very pleasant, but his insecurities make him a nightmare.’

Mrs Webb and composer husband Roger lived in the Berkshire village of Cookham Dean when the Blackburns moved into a nearby property in the early Seventies.

The Webbs held parties for showbusiness friends including Terry and Helen Wogan, Ernie Wise and his wife Doreen, and actors Herbert Lom and Beryl Reid.

In his 2007 autobiography, Poptastic! My Life In Radio, Blackburn described how the party guests were ‘virtually paralytic the whole time’. On ‘hot and wild nights’, he couldn’t keep his eyes off nude goings-on in the pool.

But Mrs Webb dismissed his claims as ‘a load of nonsense’. She told the MOS: ‘When his book came out, Doreen Wise rang me up and joked, “Oooh, Ernie and I didn’t know all this naughtiness was going on. Why didn’t you invite us when everyone was taking their clothes off?” We had a lot of fun but there was no wife-swapping or anything he was suggesting.

‘He just invented that to make it all sound more juicy. There were no wild parties with naked swimming. It was more playing croquet and donkey rides.’

Tony Blackburn (pictured) is the Seventies DJ who boasted about bedding 500 women

Pictured: Margot Webb with her composer husband Roger Webb. Mr Webb died from a brain tumour in 2002

Mrs Webb told how she was left devastated by Blackburn’s ‘hurtful and humiliating’ bragging. She said neither he nor his publisher had contacted her to inform her about his ‘revelations’. 

Mr Webb died from a brain tumour in 2002. Mrs Webb said: ‘Why is [Blackburn] continually bringing up something that happened when we were all young? Little romantic episodes happen all the time. Why is it necessary to go on like this about people who are no longer with us?

‘I wasn’t in love with him. I’ve only ever been in love with one person and that was Roger. Thankfully, Roger and I stayed together.’

Blackburn’s five-year marriage to Ms Wyatt ended in 1977. In 1992, he married theatrical agent Debbie Thomson.