The presenter at the heart of one of the BBC’s biggest crises in years has been identified as Huw Edwards, a TV broadcaster who is now facing allegations that he paid for sexually explicit images from a teenager.
LONDON — The presenter at the heart of one of the BBC’s biggest crises in years has been identified as Huw Edwards, a TV broadcaster whose distinctive Welsh lilt has been the voice of some of Britain’s most historic moments and who is now facing allegations that he paid for sexually explicit images from a teenager.
When the royal family was gathering at the bedside of Queen Elizabeth II, the BBC determined that it should be Edwards who would narrate the announcement of her death. He wasn’t on duty that day, but was tracked down at a barbershop and told to get ready to go on air in his black suit and tie.Scotland Yard’s Specialist Crime Command said Wednesday that it had concluded an assessment and found no evidence of a crime committed by Edwards.
And each evening at 10 p.m. — from 2003 until he quietly disappeared this month — he was the silver-haired presence with gravitas in the chair for the BBC’s flagship nightly news program.a mother’s accusations that a male BBC presenter — who was initially not identified, but described variously as a “star” and “household name” — sent her child a total of 35,000 pounds for sexual images since 2020, when the young person was 17.
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