Personal Life
In 1974 Lindsay married Cheryl Hall, who later appeared alongside him in Citizen Smith. They divorced in 1980, when he started a long-term relationship with actress Diana Weston, with whom he has a daughter, Sydney Laura Stevenson, who co-starred with him in three episodes of My Family.
He then left Weston for actress/presenter Rosemarie Ford. The couple have two sons, both born in Hillingdon, London: Samuel Lindsay Stevenson (born 18 November 1999) and James Lindsay Stevenson (born 8 April 2003). The couple married on 31 December 2006.
Lindsay researched his family tree in the third series of Who Do You Think You Are?, which aired on 13 September 2006. He travelled to his hometown and to Turkey, where his grandfather Raymond Dunmore had taken part in the Gallipoli campaign during World War I. Lindsay has been a lifelong supporter of Derby County, a fact which he stated in a short section for CBBC's Newsround entitled 'My Team'.
Lindsay is known for his left-wing politics. He usually describes himself as a staunch socialist, and has marched in the past in support of miners. He was an outspoken critic of Prime Minister Tony Blair's decisions to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, saying he was "furious" and now feels disillusioned with mainstream politics: "You see those images of Iraq and Afghanistan and Lebanon, don't you? And I suspect somewhere, when he goes home at night and the kids are in bed, he must go, Jesus, what have I done?"
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