BBC News presenter Huw Edwards, who has served for forty years, has resigned due to 'medical advice' from his doctor. Speaking candidly during a broadcast, TV exec Stewart Purvis says he was paid up to half a million pounds a year 'to do nothing'.
Today, it was announced Huw Edwards resigned from his £439,000-a-year jobThe family of the young person at the heart of the Huw Edwards scandal have sworn it is 'not the end' and they will keep fighting for answers despite his resignation.
The parents of the young person involved have now spoken out about their worries over what his resignation means in the search for answers. In a statement released by Mr Edward's wife Vicky Flind last year, she said that he was receiving in-patient hospital care following the claims first reported in The Sun that he paid a teenager for explicit photographsThe mother said she feels that the 'traumatic time' the family have gone through for nearly a year 'hasn't been resolved' by the move.
He told the newspaper that they have been left with 'no closure and no answers' and they 'aren't accepting that'. The star was said to have requested 'performances' from the individual, who told their mother they would then 'get their bits out'.The young person at the centre of the controversy said via a lawyer, according to the BBC, that nothing inappropriate or unlawful happened with the unnamed presenter.A bombshell second claim then emerged when the same presenter was accused of sending abusive and menacing messages to a person in their 20s.
He added that Edwards having 'walked from the BBC' will be viewed as 'quite a successful outcome' for the corporation. 'First of all, by and large, the most important issue was making the right judgement about what Huw Edwards did and working out what the right response to that is and what kind of precedent it might set.
His words come after the BBC said today that its star anchor, who broke the news of Queen Elizabeth II 's death and presented coverage of most major national events including elections and the Coronation, left the corporation on health grounds. There had been a frenzy of speculation about the identity of the star. Gary Lineker and Jeremy Vine had felt obliged to deny that they were the man in question.
He was accused of defying the third national lockdown for an encounter with a young person in 2021 while the BBC was at the same time telling millions of people to follow the rules as part of its coverage of the pandemic. The newsreader has been off air since last July after reports claiming he paid a young person for sexually explicit images
He continued: 'Looking at the high, high profile of Huw Edwards, looking at all the other knock-on issues, for instance, who is going to present the BBC's election night programme?'. Edwards, who was born in Bridgend and brought up in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984. Pictured on the six o'clock news in 1999
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