From TV star to tabloid target: how allegations took toll on John Leslie

The former Blue Peter and This Morning star's career was destroyed by a case of mistaken identity

John Leslie's public downfall happened almost overnight after he was mistakenly identified as the former TV-am weather presenter Ulrika Jonsson's rapist.

In her 2002 autobiography, Honest, Jonsson said she had been raped 15 years earlier in a hotel room by a TV personality. She refused to identify her attacker, but Leslie was named on television by the presenter Matthew Wright, who later apologised and said he had named him in error.