People have been warned against wearing a hair tie on their wrists for a long period of time, especially at night.
11.07.2023 - 11:29 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A senior Cabinet minister has cautioned MPs against revealing the identity of the BBC presenter accused of paying a teenager for explicit images.
Some MPs are said to be considering whether to use the historic convention of parliamentary privilege to expose the star, who has been suspended by the corporation following allegations in the Sun that they paid a young person around £35,000 for explicit pictures beginning at the age of 17. Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride urged caution, emphasising that until all the facts are known, it would be unwise to disclose the presenter's name.
Stride stated: "We don't know those facts, and until we do, I think under those circumstances, it will be ill-advised to do that," during an interview with Times Radio. He further expressed his stance after being asked about the issue again, during a later interview with LBC Radio. He said: “I think everybody has to take their own decision on this one. I can only tell you what I would do, which is that I would not be naming anybody in the House of Commons.
“Parliamentary privilege is a very special and privileged thing and it should be used very, very sparingly.”
A House of Commons spokesman stressed that "privilege should always be used carefully, recognising that Members do have the right to free speech in the Chamber." Media outlets have refrained from reporting the presenter's name, citing concerns about defamation and invasion of privacy.
Parliamentary privilege has been exercised in various instances in the past.
For example, in April, Labour MP Andy McDonald used parliamentary privilege to allege "industrial-scale corruption" related to the Teesworks scheme, prompting Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen to challenge him to repeat the
People have been warned against wearing a hair tie on their wrists for a long period of time, especially at night.
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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.
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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.
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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”.