Personal Life
Johnson has been married twice. His first marriage was to Judith Elizabeth Cox, with whom he has one son and two daughters. After his divorce he married Laura Jane Patient in 1991, with whom he has a son, born in 2000.
His hobbies include music, tennis, reading, cooking, football, and radio. He is now writing an autobiography, "This Boy", about his life as a child.
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