BBC host posed half-naked for charity, sex-in-wood trial is told
BBC presenter Julie Wadsworth posed semi-nude and as Lady Godiva for a calendar, a court heard yesterday.
The former radio host, accused of groping boys in public woods, took part in the “saucy” photo-shoot to raise cash for Children in Need.
In one image, she is seen from the shoulders up in an over-sized golf bag, Warwick Crown Court heard.
Details of the pictures emerged yesterday as Mrs Wadsworth was challenged over claims she has “low body confidence”.
Miranda Moore, QC, prosecuting, told her: “You’ve given us the impression you are so body-conscious you wouldn’t display yourself in public.
“You would have photographs taken as what I would describe as saucy poses, wouldn’t you?”
The presenter replied that the pictures were raising money for charity.
Ms Moore continued: “You were very happy to do a Calendar Girl-style calendar and weren’t body conscious at all as long as it passed the standards of the BBC.”
Jollies
Mrs Wadsworth said: “It was no different to Calendar Girls. It was not salacious at all.”
Alleged victims have described how the former BBC Leicester presenter sunbathed in the nude in Mancetter Park, Warks.
Mrs Moore asked her: “We have heard evidence of you being in the woods without your underwear on, can you remember that?”
The 60-year-old replied: “No, I never did it.”
Mrs Wadsworth also denied wearing white stockings and told the jury she hated them.
She said she did own a pair of long, white socks worn in “Jennifer Anistonstyle” as “a bit of fun” at a Christmas family gathering at home.
And she accepted wearing “a dress and stockings” when she appeared on a BBC programme called “Julie’s Christmas Stocking”.
Mrs Moore asked her about a video made by her husband in which she appeared topless.
“You have a video of your husband shooting a video up your skirt?” she asked. But the former DJ said the film was not out of the ordinary “if you’ve got a husband who appreciates you”.
Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow BBC presenter husband Tony, 69, of Broughton Astley, Leics, deny outraging public decency and indecently assaulting underage boys between July 1992 and June 1996.
She admitted intimately touching three alleged victims during separate encounters in Mancetter Park.
But she insisted she believed them to be young men, not boys and at least 17 – a year above the age of consent.
Jurors heard how one youth was fondled by Mrs Wadsworth after he spotted her and her husband “petting” in the woods. She said: “We didn’t say no, and when he walked forward we accepted that it was all of the moment – of sexual arousal.”
Ms Moore asked her: “Is that your problem Mrs Wadsworth – you’re just going to get your jollies however you want?” The defendant replied: “I don’t have a problem.”
In another incident, she is accused of indecently assaulting two boys while a third looked on.
Mrs Wadsworth said: “They weren’t boys, they were men. I can tell by the way they looked. There were three occasions in which I engaged in sexual relations with people in there, but they were men. Not boys.
“I do not feel that it was unacceptable or illegal for a husband and his wife to have sexual relations in the woods. I did not find it unacceptable to do that, but sadly society does.
“As long as it’s in a secluded area and not in public then I see no problem with it. I have never engaged in full sexual intercourse in the woods.”
The trial continues.