Michael Fish in swinging storm
Michael Fish is set to take legal action over allegations that he was once part of a wife-swapping circle.
The retired BBC weatherman has been mentioned in the autobiography of author and editor, David Benedictus, as being part of a swingers group near his London home in the 1980s. But, after Benedictus admitted that the claim was based on a tabloid newspaper article which he has failed to produce, Fish could be ready to sue. The former BBC man's wife, Sue, last night dismissed the claims as 'a tissue of rubbish and lies'.
She added: 'It's absolutely ridiculous. By saying my husband was wife-swapping automatically implicates me, too - I will sue him if my husband doesn't.' The couple insisted they have never heard of Benedictus, who once worked for Channel
4. But yesterday he stood by the claim, which appear in his book, Dropping Names.
He added: 'We once lived next door to each other in Twickenham.'
