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Everyone of a certain age remembers Blue Peter and Magpie but which was best? There’s only one way to find out….
Whenever the subject of Blue Peter and Magpie arises (as it often does), the inevitable question is asked: which did you prefer? It’s a tricky question as I’m not sure I preferred or even particularly liked either of them. However, viewing options were severely limited in those days and you had Hobson’s Choice due to the fact they were broadcast simultaneously on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so you had to watch one of them. Each had it’s own quirkiness, style and irritating elements and, I would argue, both were intensely middle-class in their own ways, but so was the bulk of children’s television in the late 60s and early 70s.
Whatever you thought of those programmes, though, they were part of growing up and everyone over the age of 50 has memories of them. If not of content, certainly of the various presenters who, despite the lugubriousness of many of the items, were dogged in their pursuit of adventure, learning and, not least, intrepidness. When it comes to intrepidness, Blue Peter wins hands down, though.
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I knew Peter Purves had a crush on me, but I secretly fancied John Noakes, says former Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd
By ANTONIA HOYLE, MAIL ON SUNDAY FEATURE WRITER
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Former Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd now lives in Spain
Short of being caught on camera cuddling up to his former co-star, it was about as close as Peter Purves could have come to admitting an affair.
While promoting his memoirs last week, the ex-Blue Peter presenter described Lesley Judd as ‘gorgeous’. When asked if they had been intimate, he first refused to comment and then incriminatingly blustered: ‘Could you blame me for sleeping with her? Even if I, er, had.’
It was the latest in a series of confessions from the programme’s heyday – which began with Valerie Singleton admitting her own liaison with Purves to The Mail on Sunday last year.
Purves’s new comment made it seem as though the squeaky-clean bastion of educational broadcasting was, in fact, a hotbed of sexual activity. Now Lesley has spoken out to insist that nothing untoward happened between her and Purves - but confessed that there were other sexual desires on set.
‘I’m not angry at what he said,’ she explains. ‘I’m amazed, surprised and bewildered. Speculation that anything happened is a load of rubbish. I was aware he had