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		</div><p>An ex-BBC presenter who denies child sex offences in public woodland and claimed she was body-conscious posed nearly naked for a &#8220;Naughty But Nice&#8221; charity calendar, a court has heard. Julie Wadsworth&#8217;s photo-shoot was for Children in Need, with one image showing her visible from the shoulders up in an over-sized golf bag and another portraying her as Lady Godiva.</p>
<p>Mrs Wadsworth was again tackled by the prosecution about her alleged body confidence issues, after it was also revealed her husband had shot an up-skirt video of his wife. She is on trial at Warwick Crown Court alongside spouse and former co-presenter Tony Wadsworth, with both accused of encouraging boys to take part in sexual activity in Warwickshire woods between 1992 and 1996.</p>
<p>Mrs Wadsworth has accepted having sexual encounters with &#8220;young men&#8221; in the woods, but has repeatedly denied they were children. Miranda Moore QC, prosecuting, asked Mrs Wadsworth: &#8220;You have given us all the impression that you are so body-conscious, you wouldn&#8217;t display yourself in public.&#8221;</p>
<p>Giving evidence in her defence on Thursday, Mrs Wadsworth claimed she still suffered low body confidence.<br />
But Mrs Moore put it to the defendant that she had &#8220;courted publicity&#8221;.<br />
She asked: &#8220;You would have photographs taken as what I would describe as saucy poses, wouldn&#8217;t you?&#8221;</p>
<p>Mrs Wadsworth said she had only had such pictures taken for work purposes and the charity calendar.<br />
The former broadcaster also denied sunbathing topless in public, as some complainants have alleged, adding it was &#8220;not illegal&#8221; to do so in private. Complainants have claimed they were approached and propositioned by a knicker-less Mrs Wadsworth, wearing white stockings, near woodland &#8211; while Mr Wadsworth would allegedly keep watch.</p>
<p>The couple previously worked for BBC Leicester and Birmingham-based BBC WM. Mrs Moore asked her: &#8220;We have heard evidence of you being in the woods without your underwear on, can you remember that? The 60-year-old replied: &#8220;No, I never did it.&#8221; Mrs Wadsworth said she hated white stockings, but did own a pair of long white socks worn in &#8220;Jennifer Aniston-style&#8221; as &#8220;a bit of fun&#8221; at a Christmas-time family gathering at home. She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not something I would walk out in.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, when presented with prosecution evidence she accepted wearing &#8220;a dress and stockings&#8221; for her and her husband&#8217;s Late Show BBC programme, entitled &#8220;Julie&#8217;s Christmas Stocking&#8221;. The Crown&#8217;s barrister then asked about whether she had posed for a video filmed by her husband, in which she appeared topless.</p>
<p>Mrs Moore asked: &#8220;You have a video of your husband shooting a video up your skirt?&#8221; But the former DJ said the video was nothing out of the ordinary &#8220;if you&#8217;ve got a husband who appreciates you&#8221;. Asked about the charity calendar, Mrs Wadsworth said &#8220;it was a Children in Need calendar called Naughty But Nice&#8221;, sold to listeners to raise donations.</p>
<p>Mrs Moore asked: &#8220;You were somebody who was very happy to do a Calendar-Girl style calendar, and weren&#8217;t body conscious at all as long as it passed the standards of the BBC?&#8221; The defendant replied: &#8220;It was no different to that (Calendar Girls), it was not salacious at all.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mrs Wadsworth was then asked about alleged sexual activity in the woods, including her &#8220;first encounter&#8221; of &#8220;mutual masturbation&#8221; with a male who she claimed came across she and her husband, while &#8220;petting&#8221; in the trees. She said: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t say no, and when he walked forward we accepted that it was all of the moment, of sexual arousal. &#8220;We were in a situation, he came forward and it happened.&#8221;</p>
<p>Later, Mrs Moore asked her: &#8220;Is that you problem Mrs Wadsworth &#8211; you&#8217;re just going to get your jollies however you want?&#8221; She replied: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a problem.&#8221; Mrs Wadsworth then claimed she was a &#8220;victim&#8221; of the process, adding: &#8220;The reason I use the word victim is because I am being victimised for something I did not do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked about another encounter involving what the prosecution claim was three children, Mrs Wadsworth accepted the incident happened but denied they were underage. She said: &#8220;No, they weren&#8217;t boys, they were men &#8211; I can tell by the way they looked, they were 17 or older.&#8221;</p>
<p>The couple, from Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, deny five counts of outraging public decency which allege they engaged in sexual activity &#8220;against a tree&#8221; in view of others between July 1992 and June 1996.<br />
Mrs Wadsworth, has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges of indecent assault, while her 69-year-old husband denies nine counts of the same offence.</p>
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