His father, Tommy Wadsworth, was also a presenter at BBC Leicester, and was one of the first voices to be heard on the station when it launched in 1968.
Tony Wadsworth met Julie Mayer while she was working as a seamstress at Leicester's Haymarket Theatre and hired her to make a costume for a charity event.
Alongside Julie, he also presented the regional Late Show, and the couple became known as the "Richard and Judy" of local radio.
He was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters in 2012 by De Montfort University Leicester in recognition of his services to broadcasting and to the Leicestershire community.
[12] In January 2016, the Wadsworths went off air for "personal reasons",[13] and in April 2016 it was announced that both were charged with historical child sex offences.
[6][17][18] On 9 June 2017, they were convicted on nine charges of indecently assaulting six under-age boys and on five counts of outraging public decency, by a majority verdict of 10–2.
[20] In his summing up statement, judge Andrew Lockhart QC described the case as "grave offending against boys, some of whom were very young – I have come to a view that all were damaged by their experience.