Tonight on Piers Morgan Uncensored in New York City, the face and voice of Britain's national broadcaster Hugh Edwards is dramatically named as a suspended BBC presenter at the centre of the scandal of alleged sex images that gripped the country.

Edward's wife, Vicki Flynn, released a statement tonight naming her husband and detailing his serious mental health issues, explaining his now receiving treatment and hospital. We'll have all the latest on this huge story. Plus, he's a Kennedy, a controversialist, now a candidate for President of the United States. RFK Jr. has rattled the race for the White House, but daring to say many things that nobody else will. And a lot of people are supporting him. But can he win? He joins me live.

Live from New York.

This is Pierce Morgan Uncensored.

Well, good evening and welcome from New York City to Pierce Morgan Uncensored. It's difficult to overstate how big of a deal that is back in Britain, that Hugh Edwards, the face of British news, really, the face of BBC news has now been named as the presenter at the centre of this huge scandal that's been raging in the last week.

In that esteem, he's the face of our state occasions, of royal events. He's the man who announced the death of the late Queen. He's rye, he's authoritative, and above all, he's always been trusted. By all accounts, the audiences love him. I know him, personally. He's always seemed to be a very stand-up guy. So today's news that he is the presenter behind the BBC sex picture

scandal is a huge shock to everyone that knows him, maybe to his family, certainly to millions

of people who are used to watching him on the news each night. Probably a shock to his colleagues

at the BBC. The last five days, speculation has raged about the man at the heart of the crisis.

Tonight, his wife, Vicky Flynn, a television producer, with whom he has five children,

took the courageous decision to end all that speculation. In a statement, she said,

I'm doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children.

Hugh is suffering from serious mental health issues. As is well documented, he's been treated for severe depression in recent years. The events of the last few days are greatly worse than matters. He suffered another serious episode and is now receiving inpatient hospital care where he will stay for the foreseeable future. Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.

She goes on to confirm that Edwards didn't know about any of these claims until last week.

She made a call for privacy, and she adds that Hugh is deeply sorry that so many colleagues had been impacted by the speculation.

And that's a key point. The speculation was becoming completely unsustainable.

Many other male BBC presenters were being

shamed and vilified on social media for something that had nothing to do with and had to in some cases

publicly deny their involvement. Viewers were bound to notice that Hugh Edwards had vanished

overnight from the nightly news bulletins. Clearly, Hugh Edwards is now in a very serious

situation. He probably feels like he's losing everything. Whatever the outcome of the investigations, it would be inhuman, not to think about the impact of all this on him, on his family, and his mental health. All of those are important things to consider now. But now we can talk freely about who this is. It should also be clear of why it's

been such a big story. The Met Police says it has no evidence of criminality, but what remains

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