The BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager more than £35,000 for sexually explicit pictures has been named as Huw Edwards.She said her husband was"suffering from serious mental health issues" and is now"receiving in-patient hospital care where he will stay for the foreseeable future" as she asked for privacy for her family.
Ms Flind further said that once her husband was"well enough to do so" he intends to respond to the allegations, which she says he was first told about last Thursday.Edwards, 61, is one of the corporation's most high-profile newsreaders and is currently on a salary of just over £430,000. He has presented the flagship BBC News at Ten programme more than a dozen times since the claims were allegedly reported to the corporation on 19 May.
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