BBC presenter scandal timeline as male member of staff suspended

Jeremy Vine has agreed a financial settlement with a Twitter user who falsely identified him as the BBC presenter at the centre of the Huw Edwards furore.

The BBC’s main primetime news presenter Huw Edwards and his family are receiving advice from former News of the World tabloid editor Andy Coulson, The Guardian reports. 

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has spoken to Newsnight journalists involved in investigating Huw Edwards after staff raised concerns about being approached for information regarding the star presenter’s conduct.

Huw Edwards has been named as the BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit images.

The BBC is facing increased pressure after fresh claims emerged about an unnamed presenter who has been facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit photos. Now, The Sun has shared details of messages allegedly sent by the presenter to a teenager, who was 17 at the time.The reports detail how the presenter began the conversation with a love heart emoji, despite having no previous contact with the stunned teen.They go on to describe a conversation between the two, which shows the presenter sending kisses at the end of messages and asking the teen questions about their day.

Jeremy Vine has urged the unnamed presenter at the heart of the BBC scandal 'to come forward', saying 'the longer he leaves it the worse it will be for him'.

A fourth person has made allegations that the BBC star at the centre of the sex picture scandal sent them ‘creepy’ messages on Instagram. The alleged message exchange took place when the young person was 17-years-old and is said to have been started by the unnamed presenter.

Jeremy Vine and Piers Morgan are among the high profile figures who have called for the unnamed presenter at the heart of the BBC scandal to come forward publicly for the good of his colleagues at the corporation.

A BBC presenter facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit photos has been accused of breaking lockdown rules to meet a young person from a dating website during the pandemic, The Sun reported. The newspaper said it has seen messages which suggest the presenter travelled to see the 23-year-old in February 2021, after meeting them on a dating website the previous November.

The BBC has reported that a second young person felt threatened by messages they received from the presenter facing allegations he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos.

The BBC has suspended a member of staff following allegations that they paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit images.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said claims made against an unnamed BBC presenter will be investigated “swiftly and rigorously”.

A senior Cabinet minister has cautioned MPs against revealing the identity of the BBC presenter accused of paying a teenager for explicit images.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he was “shocked and concerned” by recent allegations that a top BBC presenter paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexual images.

The teenager at the centre of the BBC controversy has said nothing "inappropriate or unlawful" happened with the unnamed male presenter and that the allegations were “rubbish”. In a letter from their lawyer, read out on today's BBC Six O'Clock news the teenager, now 20, said the claims, originally made by their mother, were not true.The letter stated: “For the avoidance of doubt, nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality and the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are ‘rubbish’.” The letter from the lawyer also said that the young person sent a denial to the newspaper on Friday evening via a WhatsApp message, in which they said the allegation was "totally wrong and there was no truth to it".The Sun had claimed a BBC presenter paid a teenager £35,000 in exchange for sexually explicit images.The teenager’s mother told The Sun she saw a picture of the presenter on her child’s phone “sitting on a sofa in his house in his underwear”.

Media law experts have explained why there have been no reports identifying the suspended BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager for explicit pictures.

The young person at the centre of the BBC controversy said “nothing inappropriate or unlawful” took place between them and the presenter, according to their lawyer. It follows allegations that the unnamed presenter, who has now been suspended, paid a teenager for sexual images.

The young person at the centre of the BBC controversy said "nothing inappropriate or unlawful" took place between them and the presenter.

In a major plot twist in an enormous scandal gripping the UK’s national broadcaster, the young person at the heart of the BBC presenter sex pictures scandal has thrown doubt on the claims.

Nicky Campbell has spoken out after he was "falsely named" as the BBC presenter facing accusations of paying a teenager for sexually explicit pictures.