How does the BBC get out of the presenter mess?

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Seriously how does the BBC now go forward and what can be the conclusion to this story? The story could run for some time with on going speculation about the presenter and eventually in my opinion a name will drop.

Can there therefore be any sort of fair investigation because I think there may be too much aspirational damage now for a career to be as ed. It seems the knives the BBC sit on this the more scrutiny there is and they desperately need a conclusion?

A second young person has just come forward apparently

under 18 too

Where have you seen this?

sky news

BBC website too

it gets worse....

Yup. BBC breaking.

BBC have confirmed the mobile number used.

Are we going to have witch hunts for people doing legal appropriate things now. The mind boggles.

On bbc news.

The presenter sent abusive and threatening messages to another young person after meeting them on a dating app. The bbc has seen the messages and verified the phone number belongs to the presenter (which I imagine was fairly easy for them to check!).

Maybe the parents are hoping the person will be able to go into rehab. A chunk of money would certainly help with fees.
Getting any help on the NHS is a long wait and pretty impossible at the moment.
Their motives seem to be from a good place , but addicts are not easy to help and they probably have gone no contact now anyway , so it might all backfire.
It does seem a desperate move, maybe they thought the bbc would just sack the person straight away or something like that.
People do think things are more straightforward than they are I think and don't realize what is actually involved with employment laws and data protection and all sorts too.

Fookin hell.

Where does it say under 18?

Oh, the plot thickens then :(
It sounds like more things are coming out now
Using your own mobile! What where they thinking ?

The individual in their early 20s was first contacted anonymously by the male presenter on a dating app, according to the BBC.

You should get your post deleted Bonushole.

@Blossomtoes I don't think it does. The bbc says they are in their early 20s but doesn't say when the messages happened.

Again there's a very odd reluctance to refer to the young person's sex. Is it reluctance to out the presenter?

All very murky but still nothing illegal. His poor family.

I assume you have to be 18+ to use dating sites?

What a mess.

It’s interesting that the expletive filled messages came after alleged victim no 2 tried to blackmail the BBC presenter.

I've had friends I've discussed it with saying how it's unfair and trial by media and I disagree personally- and feel slightly validated for feeling pissed at paying a license fee to a network who has on air a man who potentially behaves this way off air with the new allegations

If the bbc has confirmed the number used then regardless of whether its criminal- it's morally bankrupt and an abuse of his status to pressure vulnerable people (I consider all sex workers to be vulnerable) irrelevant to if it's commonplace amongst men to think they can buy consent - I do think a public face of a publicly funded network has an obligation to hold themselves to higher standards and not bring it into disrepute

Where do you get the idea they’re sex workers @dancinginthesky?

Well bit harder for them now

Accusations of threatening and bullying behaviour. Very grim indeed

@Blossomtoes isn't that what you'd call someone trading sexual content of themselves? For money?

So he's using similar sites / the same site stupidly but not illegally. And people are effectively blackmailing him and he gets angry about it. That's not surprising and it wouldn't be surprising if the same thing happened with individual 1.

Have you ever used one? It’s a tick box if that, are you 18, possibly requires a date of birth, it’s not verified in any way.