Broadcasting legend Tony Blackburn has mocked his own sex, drugs and pop music antics - and joked about having the hots for Angela Rippon. The Radio 2 DJ, 79, also became obsessed with traffic lights during a "fantastic" trip on hash cakes.
Despite enjoying the Swinging Sixties, Tony insists he was "never interested in drugs" in that decade. And while he stressed he does not "do" drugs, he admitted: "I have experienced them," reports the Mirror.
Tony recalled the occasion he took an ecstasy pill that he believed to be paracetamol – given to him by his late pal, the DJ Steve Walsh. He said: "I thought it was a headache pill but I suddenly went really hot.
"I went home, sat down and watched the Nine O’Clock News and really enjoyed it." He remembered finding the episode "lovely," stating: "Angela Rippon was doing it."
He continued: "But afterwards, the programme controller offered us this hash cake. And I thought, 'Why not?' It was the most fantastic time of my life. We had the most wonderful time.
"We got in this cab and every traffic light we stopped at that was red, we split ourselves laughing."
He joked to Danny Wallace and Phil Hilton on their Manatomy podcast that his fondness for traffic lights has continued to this day.
And on a trip to New York 1985 in New York, he stopped off at a soul station and "was next door to a DJ who had a sack load of cocaine". He said: "Doing the show, he was stuffing the stuff up his nose. I've never seen anything like it."
He added: "The M25, Junction 23. There's the most fantastic sequencing of light down the roundabout. There's never a traffic jam. I sometimes go just to look at it."
Tony admitted his biggest regret resulted from his 1985 autobiography Living Legend when he wrote he had slept with 300 women. He said: "I’m not proud of it. My mum and dad weren't too happy about it. It was a bit tacky."
He also discussed becoming addicted to Valium in the wake of his 1977 divorce from Tessa Wyatt, with whom he shares a son. Tony also has a daughter with second wife Debbie.
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