BBC Presenter Allegations: Huw Edwards Named
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
His wife has issued a statement on his behalf.
Huw Edwards been named as the BBC presenter facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit images, in a statement issued on his behalf by his wife.
Media editor Katie Razzall and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani have been covering events since allegations were made in The Sun on Friday. They join Adam in the studio to talk about what’s in the statement.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, so today we were making an episode of newscast where I'd gone to go and look at |
| 0:10.2 | the premiere of the Barbie movie getting ready and we'd spoken to Bram and Jeffries, our |
| 0:14.5 | education editor about loads of stuff that's happening in the education world and we weren't |
| 0:18.9 | going to cover the story about the allegations against the BBC presenter and then just at |
| 0:24.0 | six o'clock my colleague Sophie Ruehworth announced this news headline about another colleague |
| 0:29.6 | of ours. Good evening. Well in the last few minutes the BBC presenter has been named |
| 0:35.7 | as Hugh Edwards, the man who has been accused of paying a teenager for explicit. So a |
| 0:41.0 | pretty major development in this story and there's been some other developments in it as |
| 0:45.4 | well and that's what we will talk about on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:49.8 | Newscast from the BBC. He got trounced by the former Prime Minister |
| 0:54.0 | who herself got beaten by a lettuce. At least I didn't slap anybody which is good. |
| 0:57.7 | Green economy, blah blah blah. It's the Guardian reading. Tofu eating, |
| 1:03.1 | woperati. I'm actually very right wing. You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle. |
| 1:07.4 | Today I feel gay. The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 1:11.6 | Amir, because of live career Megan and I don't care what anybody says about me. |
| 1:16.2 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. Hello, it's Katie. And it's Dominic. Hello. |
| 1:20.6 | And you two have just been very busy reacting to all this breaking news on the six o'clock news |
| 1:24.8 | with I'm guessing what like only a minute or two's notice. |
| 1:28.2 | Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. Mike's falling off desks, things like that. |
| 1:32.4 | Well, well done. And thank you for bringing the news to us in such a responsible way, |
| 1:36.2 | especially when the news is about our organization too. |
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