Veteran BBC broadcaster David Hamilton, affectionately known as “Diddy”, has opened up about how he “fell in love” with a s3x worker, revealing that the relationship began after his marriage broke down following the birth of his children.
Hamilton, now 87, became a household name in the 1970s as a presenter on Radio 1 and Top of the Pops. At just 24, he married makeup artist Sheila Moore, and the couple had two children, Jane and David Jr. But despite describing the marriage as “happy,” Hamilton confessed that it changed after parenthood.
“I went to meet her at Liverpool Street station,” he recalled in an interview with Best magazine. “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.”
The radio icon said that during this period, he met Roz, a woman he later discovered was a s3x worker, and the two began an affair. “Then he meets someone young, free and single and thinks, ‘Crikey, I could go back to that happy state I was in before,’” Hamilton 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.”
During their relationship, Hamilton helped Roz open a small business. “We became very fond of each other,” he said, “but I was getting in too deep.” The romance eventually ended, and in 1993, Hamilton married his second wife, Dreena, ten years after they were introduced on a blind date.
Despite early warnings that Hamilton was a “womaniser,” Dreena said yes, and the couple remain together. Hamilton described his wife as “the wind beneath my wings.”
The popular radio DJ, one of the biggest voices in British broadcasting during the 1970s and 1980s, revealed in 2022 that he had been diagnosed with polycythaemia vera, a rare form of blood cancer that causes the overproduction of red blood cells.
Speaking to The Daily Mail about his condition, Hamilton said, “Everybody who sees me says how well I look. Too many red blood cells give you a very rosy complexion, so it looks like you’ve got a sun tan.”
