Editing Leonard Rossiter (section)

==Personal life==
Rossiter's first marriage was to the actress [[Josephine Tewson]], with whom he had worked many times in [[repertory theatre]] in the 1950s. They married in 1958. The marriage ended in divorce in 1961. His second wife was the actress [[Gillian Raine]], with whom he had a daughter, Camilla, and to whom he was still married at the time of his death.<ref name="Personal">{{cite web|title=Personal Remembrances, includes many pictures with Raine and his daughter|url=http://www.leonardrossiter.com/Personal.html|access-date=2 February 2009}}</ref> Rossiter had met Raine when he played the lead role of Fred Midway in [[David Turner (dramatist)|David Turner]]'s play ''Semi-Detached'', in a production directed by [[Tony Richardson]]. The play opened on 8 June 1962 at the [[Belgrade Theatre]] in [[Coventry]] and ran for a week. During the play's second run at the Belgrade, in September 1963, the couple fell in love and moved in together, but they did not marry until 1972.<ref name = "Personal2">{{cite web|title=Personal Remembrances, includes many pictures with Raine in Semi-Detached|url=http://www.leonardrossiter.com/SemiDetached.html|access-date=2 February 2009}}</ref>

Rossiter was an [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] fan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/pictures-remembering-leonard-rossiter-one-7881563|title=Pics and video: Remembering Leonard Rossiter|last=Macdonald|first=Neil|date=4 October 2014|access-date=30 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=The joke that led Leonard Rossiter to stardom...and Rigsby|last=Knight|first=Val|quote=Of course I'm an Evertonian by tradition and so is my family. Tommy Lawton was my hero.|date=1 April 1978|newspaper=[[TVTimes]]}}</ref> He was also a wine [[connoisseur]], and converted his attic into a sort of [[wine cellar]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The joke that led Leonard Rossiter to stardom...and Rigsby|last=Knight|first=Val|quote=Wine connoisseur Rossiter keeps his several hundred bottles of vintage wine, rather surprisingly, in his attic in the pleasant once two-up-two down cottage he has converted.|date=1 April 1978|newspaper=[[TVTimes]]}}</ref>

After his death, it was revealed that during the early 1980s Rossiter had had a five-year relationship with the broadcaster [[Sue MacGregor]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Woman of Today|first=Sue|last=MacGregor|isbn=0-7472-4989-X|publisher=Headline Book Publishing|year=2002|place=London|pages=194–198}}</ref> His wife had not been aware of the affair until she received a letter from MacGregor breaking the news that her memoirs, which were about to be published, would include an account of the affair.<ref name=telegraphreview/>