Peter Woods Death: What Happened To Justin Webb’s Father?

Peter Woods died aged 64 on 22 March 1995.

In 2011, BBC journalist Justin Webb revealed that Peter Woods was his biological father.

Woods had an affair with Webb’s mother who was a secretary at the Daily Mirror when Woods was a star reporter. Woods though was already married and Webb’s mother was separated from her first husband.

Peter Woods was a British journalist, reporter, and newsreader. He was one of the BBC’s best-known broadcasters of his day.

Woods had two children, Susan and Guy 1957 with his first wife Kathleen Marian. The marriage was dissolved in 1975 and in 1977 he married Esma Jean Steer.

Woods provided financially for Webb and supported his education at Sidcot School, but saw him only once, when he was six months old.

Woods is best remembered for his television work for BBC News on Newsroom initially as a reporter but also as a newsreader from the 1960s until the early 1980s.

He was the first newsreader to broadcast in colour on BBC 2, in News Room. In 1976, he slurred his words on the late evening news. Viewers phoned in to complain that Woods was drunk, but his difficulties were blamed on medication for sinus problems.