Nestled in woodland and tucked away behind the college which bears its name, Hopwood Hall could be one of Greater Manchester's finest gems.
11.07.2023 - 19:07 / deadline.com
To say the mood is grim at the BBC would be an understatement. In a long line of recent crises, a messy, murky, seemingly sordid scandal involving a top presenter could prove to be its gravest in a decade.
The identity of the man has not been reported by any major media outlet because of the UK’s strict defamation and privacy case law, but his identity is an open secret at the BBC.
Deadline has spoken to several of the individual’s close colleagues in recent days and there is a mixture of shock and sorrow at the allegations. “People are incredibly sad,” said one person.
There is anger too. Anger that the BBC did not even question the presenter until seven weeks after a complaint was made against him.
Anger that wild speculation over the presenter’s identity has become, as one senior insider described it, a “national sport” in which innocent stars have been wrongly named in connection with the allegations.
Anger that the BBC’s wounds are sometimes self-inflicted, like the embarrassing climbdown in March over Gary Lineker breaking impartiality rules.
“It’s an accumulation, an aggregation of things,” said one on-screen star, referring to Director General Tim Davie’s three years in office. “This could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
There is also a foreboding sense that the full scale of the latest crisis is yet to emerge. It remains a confusing picture, amid claims and counterclaims about whether the unnamed presenter paid a teenager for explicit images, potentially breaking the law in the process.
BBC boss Davie faced the press today for the first time since the presenter scandal broke. Leaning heavily on a scripted timeline of events, he attempted to answer some of the many questions that shroud the story.
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Nestled in woodland and tucked away behind the college which bears its name, Hopwood Hall could be one of Greater Manchester's finest gems.
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read a statement from the public British broadcaster. “New allegations were put to us on Thursday of a different nature and in addition to our own enquiries we have also been in touch with external authorities, in line with our protocols.”Neither the BBC nor The Sun are disclosing the accused presenter’s name.