Page 8 | TV presenter allegations

JeandeServiette · 2023-07-08T22:54:49+00:00

Could we PLEASE have a thread that stays up? Meaning don't name anyone, or any programme or ask for initials or hint. I just would like to discuss how this is likely to unfold.

Namechanger1002 · 09/07/2023 08:29

finewelshcheese · 09/07/2023 08:22

I thought it had been established that she hadn't accepted any payment and didn't want any?

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The Sun stated that she hadn’t asked for payment. They didn’t say she hadn’t received any.

StopFeckingFaffing · 09/07/2023 08:30

Am I the only person cynically assuming the 'BBC star' is going to be someone 99% of us have never heard of?

It feels like The Sun are deliberately keeping the person's identify secret to maximise media and public interest. Surely it is was genuinely a household name then they would have exposed them sooner?

I'm thinking a regional presenter/reporter or someone from an obscure daytime show

cushioncovers · 09/07/2023 08:33

finewelshcheese
I thought it had been established that she hadn't accepted any payment and didn't want any?

So far

topnoddy · 09/07/2023 08:34

HappiDaze · 09/07/2023 02:47

Her motive is that it's fucked up her DS MH

Allegedly , I don't believe anything in any tabloid paper on "stories" like this

LlynTegid · 09/07/2023 08:35

I hope the paper concerned has given the evidence to the police, who should be the ones dealing with it.

TheLadyofShalott1 · 09/07/2023 08:37

Sorry, but I have not read the whole thread, and if as has been presented to the media, this TV personality has done exactly as accused, then he is a disgusting and grubby man. But, I thought that once someone was over the age of 16 - where they can legally choose to have sex or not - that the accused can't actually be prosecuted for what he did because it is not illegal, just extremely immoral?

If he is guilty of doing what he has been accused of, and if it is illegal (which I hope it is), then I hope that it does all come out in a court case. If it isn't illegal, then I am not sure that the whole world needs to know about his horribly immoral behaviour, however, he himself, should quietly retire under the pretext of ill health, and never behave like that again - if he did repeat such nasty behaviour again with someone else, then I doubt that he could expect not be outed for a second time.

Again, even if encouraging and asking (and paying) a 16 or 17 year old for such pictures is not illegal, if he did do so then I repeat that I believe he needs to retire as quietly as possible from the media, and never behave like that again. If his coercive behaviour is not illegal at the moment, maybe it should be made so? After all, is it not at least as bad as curb crawling (looking) for a prostitute?

MayThe4th · 09/07/2023 08:41

Good too see some pp are focusing on the actions of the mother (females always get the blame in the end) when the issue is a publicly funded tv presenter is using that cash to exploit a vulnerable person (age 16 at the start / drug addict). nothing to do with her being female and everything to do with trying to whip up a frenzy by going to the tabloids and putting every bbc presenter in the spotlight.

MeinKraft · 09/07/2023 08:41

SlashsHat · 09/07/2023 08:26

Thoughts and prayers to all the male BBC presenters who are currently off air for legitimate reasons…

one thing I know for sure is I hope Katie Hopkins gets sued (again) for libel following her video. Would have thought the odious road would have learnt her lesson the first two times…

She definitely will I think. Mud sticks and all those names thrown out there will always have this associated with them, even it's nothing to do with them.

MetaverseMavis · 09/07/2023 08:45

I Am Curious what Productions the presenter was involved with and unless they were very high up how they had that sort of disposable income. There was a super injunction made 23rd or 24th June so clearly has disposable income

MeinKraft · 09/07/2023 08:47

FitAt50 · 09/07/2023 08:19

Sounds like the 'son' has set himself up on an onlyfans or 'seeking sugar daddy' website. He would have to have claimed he was 18 to get approved on these sites and to register for payments from 'customers'. The BBC 'star' would have discovered him on there and made connection and regular payments for private contact.

This makes sense, and if so I think it's the website at fault rather than the BBC presenter, they should be checking that the people sending pictures on their site are 18+.

Coincidentally, YouGov had a chat the other day gauging public opinion on whether OF type sites should be legal and what the age limit should be.

topnoddy · 09/07/2023 08:48

MetaverseMavis · 09/07/2023 08:45

I Am Curious what Productions the presenter was involved with and unless they were very high up how they had that sort of disposable income. There was a super injunction made 23rd or 24th June so clearly has disposable income

Like to share the info on the SI
SI are not even allowed to be reported they exist

MenopauseSucks · 09/07/2023 08:50

@Museya15

That is also as I understand it from the mouth of a scumbag journo working for the tabloids...

WeWereInParis · 09/07/2023 08:51

FitAt50 · 09/07/2023 08:19

Sounds like the 'son' has set himself up on an onlyfans or 'seeking sugar daddy' website. He would have to have claimed he was 18 to get approved on these sites and to register for payments from 'customers'. The BBC 'star' would have discovered him on there and made connection and regular payments for private contact.

I know it's all rumours etc but from what I've read it sounds like it was on Only Fans, and the young person was female.

AutumnCrow · 09/07/2023 08:53

Five grand though in a single payment. That’s serious money.

Samaritans999 · 09/07/2023 08:54

WeWereInParis · 09/07/2023 08:51

I know it's all rumours etc but from what I've read it sounds like it was on Only Fans, and the young person was female.

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This is what I'm reading. It was someone they met on OF and the BBC presenter is the one asking to be left alone not the other way around.

MissHoollie · 09/07/2023 08:54

fresh allegations.... So does that mean previous allegations?

Sunnyfunnytimes · 09/07/2023 08:54

Sky is saying a senior mp , chair of the culture media and sports committee is demanding an investigation into why the bbc took so long to act when they were told

i reckon it’s true. Whomever it is is a tv presenter, on a 6 fig salary, so yes a household name, and unlikely to be news, as who loved watching a given bbc news presenter. It’s just not wording you’d use.

tunbridgeoutrage · 09/07/2023 08:55

I just googled a list of male BBC presenters. There aren't that many. If it is anyone on that list I will be very shocked and the rest of the nation will be too,

Bellajac · 09/07/2023 08:55

I'm not defending the presenter at all. Although the whole thing seems grubby - if the young person was under age and a crime was committed why hasn't the family gone to the police rather than the Sun?

Power and fame attracts people. It's not just the famous person who is always the one manipulating situations and driving them though (not saying that this is the case here). Years ago, when I was much younger, I went out with a relatively well known dj. I was amazed at the number of women who would openly proposition him, press phone numbers into his hand etc - while I was with him! It was an eye opener.

Sunnyfunnytimes · 09/07/2023 08:56

StopFeckingFaffing · 09/07/2023 08:30

Am I the only person cynically assuming the 'BBC star' is going to be someone 99% of us have never heard of?

It feels like The Sun are deliberately keeping the person's identify secret to maximise media and public interest. Surely it is was genuinely a household name then they would have exposed them sooner?

I'm thinking a regional presenter/reporter or someone from an obscure daytime show

The person is on a 6 fig salary, regional presenters don’t get that.

khw666 · 09/07/2023 08:56

It feels like The Sun are deliberately keeping the person's identify secret to maximise media and public interest.

I'm the last person to defend The Sun, but they will be keeping quiet to avoid a lawsuit as nothing has been proved yet.

It all sounds sleazy, but my pitchfork is still in the shed until I know the full story.

ie was this youth (sounds like a boy) on a site like OnlyFans and selling his pics?
did he say he was over 18? Or did he meet the celebrity serving him in the chip shop/local newsagent and the celebrity pestered him for his phone number and then pics. Was the celebrity using his status to put pressure on the youth?

Has a crime been committed? Morally it sounds creepy and awful and I would be horrified by my teenager doing this, but we need more and the media are as usual whipping it up.

And yes I remember the page 3 days and if it was 30 years ago and this is a young girl, they would pay for her to get her tits out for the rest of the lads. Probably a middle page spread.

AutumnCrow · 09/07/2023 08:58

Sunnyfunnytimes · 09/07/2023 08:54

Sky is saying a senior mp , chair of the culture media and sports committee is demanding an investigation into why the bbc took so long to act when they were told

i reckon it’s true. Whomever it is is a tv presenter, on a 6 fig salary, so yes a household name, and unlikely to be news, as who loved watching a given bbc news presenter. It’s just not wording you’d use.

Caroline Dinenage? Yes she sounds furious, so I think she’s been briefed and isn’t at all happy. She can use parliamentary privilege on Tuesday and name him if she wants.

bellac11 · 09/07/2023 09:00

For me the least of the issue is that an MP is annoyed and furious. MPs and their system have caused a whole heap of harm to society.

If, as it might seem to be right now, a young person goes on one of these websites and uploads photos, whether under 18 or not, and someone buys them (the presenter wont be the only customer), that puts a totally different perspective on it for me

tunbridgeoutrage · 09/07/2023 09:02

StopFeckingFaffing · 09/07/2023 08:30

Am I the only person cynically assuming the 'BBC star' is going to be someone 99% of us have never heard of?

It feels like The Sun are deliberately keeping the person's identify secret to maximise media and public interest. Surely it is was genuinely a household name then they would have exposed them sooner?

I'm thinking a regional presenter/reporter or someone from an obscure daytime show

I agree. that's probably what's going to happen.

I looked up all the mainstream BBC presenters and I'll bet it isn't one of them because they are consummate professionals. Surely none of them would make such an awful "mistake". If it is one of the big hitters I have an idea of who I think it could be, but I really hope it isn't him.

I know it's awful to speculate like this and to be so invested, but I am completely into the scandal now and am dying to know who it is. Dm me if you know or have heard rumours (even just initials will do)

TheLadyofShalott1 · 09/07/2023 09:04

frustratednomad · 09/07/2023 08:22

I would be interested to know if this celebrity is still being paid. If the BBC has definitive proof that this incident has happened then they should be made to name the person involved, it is license payers money that have paid his wages, ergo license payers money that has been paid to the victim.

As far as I know, all civil servants, NHS health workers, armed forces employees and state education providers etc, are paid for by our taxes, so presumably you believe that any one of them should be outed when accused of doing anything illegal/immoral - before they have even been arrested for it, never mind actually found guilty of it?

I absolutely hate what this TV personality did - if it is proven to be true - but as much as my nosiness worried interest in this case wants to know who is being accused, I don't think it is in the public interest for his name to be published - yet. If the BBC do have proof that an employee of theirs did do those awful things, then unless they know for certain that his actions are/were illegal, I still don't think they should expose him until they at least know he is going to be prosecuted for it.