Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC, nearly a 12 months after stories claimed that the newsreader had paid a teenager for sexually specific photos.
“Huw Edwards has as we speak resigned and left the BBC,” stated an announcement from the broadcaster.
“After 40 years of service, Huw has defined that his choice was made on the premise of medical recommendation from his medical doctors. The BBC has accepted his resignation which it believes will permit all events to maneuver ahead.”
One of many BBC’s most high-profile newsreaders, who additionally fronted its election protection, Edwards was revealed to be the topic of a Solar exposé a few ‘BBC presenter’ who had allegedly paid a teenager round £30,000 ($38,000) for indecent photos final summer season. He was named on July 12 by his spouse Vicky Flind, who stated on the time the presenter was “affected by severe psychological well being points” and was receiving in-patient hospital care.
Director Normal Tim Davie quickly after ordered two critiques into the matter – one on BBC complaints processes and the opposite a ‘factfinding investigation.’
A kind of critiques, printed two months in the past, discovered that the BBC had not “thought-about the potential wider significance” of the grievance towards Huw Edwards when it was logged final Might.” The evaluate made for uncomfortable studying for the nation’s public broadcaster and it apologized to the complainant.
The Edwards debacle dominated entrance pages for weeks amid wider debates across the conduct of presenters. It got here across the time that ITV’s former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield resigned after admitting to an affair with a youthful colleague.
