Page 5 | Huw Edwards

Iamacatslave · 2023-07-12T17:03:42+00:00

Wife of Huw Edwards names him as presenter.

Hedjwitch · 12/07/2023 20:15

People having been buying and selling sex since time began. Two consenting adults involved. Feel for his wife and kids but he's hardly Ian Brady!

MrsPapadopolis · 12/07/2023 20:17

Can people not read?

No crime has been committed.

"The Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police both said this evening that no criminal offence had been committed by the presenter. The BBC had paused its internal probe into the claims Mr Edwards paid the teenager for explicit pictures - and that investigation will now continue. "

Jongleterre · 12/07/2023 20:22

It's a 'crime' that someone can be paid so much for doing so little that he can afford to fritter way £35k for photos of bobs and Vagene.

lljkk · 12/07/2023 20:27

if your employer found this is what you’d been up to, what do you think would happen.

Nothing, because no crime was committed. But I imagine they'd ask me not to do media work, someone else could interact with press.

HuckingFellHire · 12/07/2023 20:31

If nothing illegal occured - however morally wrong - then it's a private matter between him and his wife and absolutely fuck all do with any of us.

Leave the man alone before he tops himself.

CountingMareep · 12/07/2023 20:31

The Telegraph online was very cunning with its headline placement the other day, running a story about Edwards being in the top ten highest paid BBC presenters immediately above the ‘unnamed presenter scandal’. 🤔

RedRosette2023 · 12/07/2023 20:32

cansu · 12/07/2023 18:12

So there is no criminal offence. The person supposedly affected has said that there is no case to answer. The police are taking no action. A man has basically been trashed all over the media for something in his personal life. He is now in hospital. Great! That sounds really proportionate. Is there some rule somewhere that people who read the news must be held to a higher standard than everyone else??

Me neither. If the boys were “of age” how is this any different to Jordan, who started her career at 16, or only fans where everyone is celebrating young girls being empowered for selling footage of themselves.

It’s a bit grim and creepy, but so is the rest of the sex industry. I don’t agree his actions really set him apart.

Isthisexpected · 12/07/2023 20:33

OhmygodDont · 12/07/2023 18:09

I mean we all knew. I told dh on Saturday/Sunday it was him 😂 and I’ve seen far more of his arse then I ever wanted too

I had absolutely no idea it was him!

Happyday78 · 12/07/2023 20:33

AdamRyan · 12/07/2023 19:52

Firstly the rumours is it was males not females
Secondly that's ridiculous. He's a grown man and should know seeking sex pics/hook ups from barely legal young people would cause trouble when people found out.
And it is a when not an if because its human nature to gossip.

Your post smacks of misogyny and victim blaming.

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I replied to a post about 'if this is your daughter who sent the pictures ', hence the "daughter" here. If you want to reply to my post, can you pls read the context before you replied? BTW, how could I tell I blame the victim?

SilverGlitterBaubles · 12/07/2023 20:44

It is desperately sad for his wife and children they must be going through hell.

tigger1001 · 12/07/2023 20:49

"Sorry I didn’t explain properly- for those defending him, how would you feel if your own son or daughter had been sending photos to him, or if they had been on the receiving end of his threatening messages? Would you be so keen to let it all go?"

I have a 17 year old. If this was them, I don't think having the story all over the internet and being the talking point everywhere would be doing them any good. Especially if they were vulnerable (addict). And more so if they, now at 20 years old, are adamant that there was nothing illegal happening.

Being hounded by tabloid journalists (if the family name gets out there, which I suspect it will at some point) isn't how I would protect my child.

The internet stories will be there forever. Following the young person around forever. Every job interview, every bank account opened (money laundering forms often ask for internet search to be done for any adverse stories) etc.

I'm not saying this isn't sleezy. It is. The whole sorry situation is just a big mess. But for me, potentially exposing my (adult) child's mistakes for the world to see for a long time would give me big pause.

AdamRyan · 12/07/2023 20:49

Happyday78 · 12/07/2023 20:33

I replied to a post about 'if this is your daughter who sent the pictures ', hence the "daughter" here. If you want to reply to my post, can you pls read the context before you replied? BTW, how could I tell I blame the victim?

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Why do you think "the young person should be talked to first"
It's not like they rocked up unsolicited and sent pictures. He asked for them. It's grim.

20 year olds do things that they regret later in life (I certainly did!) Older people have a moral responsibility not to take advantage of that failing in young adults.

Your post comes across a bit like the "well if you go out in a short skirt you'll be asking for trouble" school of parenting.

We need to stop making excuses for the shitty behaviour of men who are old enough to know better

AdamRyan · 12/07/2023 20:50

tigger1001 · 12/07/2023 20:49

"Sorry I didn’t explain properly- for those defending him, how would you feel if your own son or daughter had been sending photos to him, or if they had been on the receiving end of his threatening messages? Would you be so keen to let it all go?"

I have a 17 year old. If this was them, I don't think having the story all over the internet and being the talking point everywhere would be doing them any good. Especially if they were vulnerable (addict). And more so if they, now at 20 years old, are adamant that there was nothing illegal happening.

Being hounded by tabloid journalists (if the family name gets out there, which I suspect it will at some point) isn't how I would protect my child.

The internet stories will be there forever. Following the young person around forever. Every job interview, every bank account opened (money laundering forms often ask for internet search to be done for any adverse stories) etc.

I'm not saying this isn't sleezy. It is. The whole sorry situation is just a big mess. But for me, potentially exposing my (adult) child's mistakes for the world to see for a long time would give me big pause.

The young person hasn't been named so I don't see how the stories will follow them around forever

Happyday78 · 12/07/2023 20:54

AdamRyan · 12/07/2023 20:49

Why do you think "the young person should be talked to first"
It's not like they rocked up unsolicited and sent pictures. He asked for them. It's grim.

20 year olds do things that they regret later in life (I certainly did!) Older people have a moral responsibility not to take advantage of that failing in young adults.

Your post comes across a bit like the "well if you go out in a short skirt you'll be asking for trouble" school of parenting.

We need to stop making excuses for the shitty behaviour of men who are old enough to know better

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If he asked for the pictures, it might be because the younger male was selling it in the first place? It's mutual interest rather than blaming one side only? No one takes advantage from others in this trading event just because one is younger and one is older?

WhiteStripePipe · 12/07/2023 21:02

Happyday78 · 12/07/2023 20:54

If he asked for the pictures, it might be because the younger male was selling it in the first place? It's mutual interest rather than blaming one side only? No one takes advantage from others in this trading event just because one is younger and one is older?

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Well indeed…. I doubt he was just going round messaging random people. Presumably (if any of it’s true) they met on some sort of platform where people converge for that sort of thing.

SilverGlitterBaubles · 12/07/2023 21:09

tigger1001 · 12/07/2023 20:49

"Sorry I didn’t explain properly- for those defending him, how would you feel if your own son or daughter had been sending photos to him, or if they had been on the receiving end of his threatening messages? Would you be so keen to let it all go?"

I have a 17 year old. If this was them, I don't think having the story all over the internet and being the talking point everywhere would be doing them any good. Especially if they were vulnerable (addict). And more so if they, now at 20 years old, are adamant that there was nothing illegal happening.

Being hounded by tabloid journalists (if the family name gets out there, which I suspect it will at some point) isn't how I would protect my child.

The internet stories will be there forever. Following the young person around forever. Every job interview, every bank account opened (money laundering forms often ask for internet search to be done for any adverse stories) etc.

I'm not saying this isn't sleezy. It is. The whole sorry situation is just a big mess. But for me, potentially exposing my (adult) child's mistakes for the world to see for a long time would give me big pause.

This would also be my priority, having a young person exposed to further trauma of being the subject of media headlines, gossip and scrutiny would just bring further harm.

tigger1001 · 12/07/2023 21:09

@AdamRyan you don't think their name will come out? That these so called tabloid journalists won't try to hunt them down?

MayThe4th · 12/07/2023 21:30

Well I find it somewhat of a coincidence that after the male in question had come out to say that it was lies, the Sun had suddenly been contacted by others about the same (unnamed at the time) presenter. Very coincidental that. After all, anyone making allegations wouldn’t have known who it was, just because it was all over twitter didn’t make it true at the time. Jeremy vine/Rylan/Nicky campbell’s names were all over twitter too, and had the twitter mood been different, any one of those could have been named as certainly the one, even though we know now that they weren’t.

As for downplaying Hugh Edwards’ mental health, that is just despicable. This is someone with a history of mental health issues, and regardless of what has gone on in their private life (if anything), accusing someone of using their mental health is pretty low. Or are people not going to be happy until he kills himself. Unlike Philip Schofield who brought that up unexpectedly, this is a person with a known history of mental health issues, who is now in hospital because of said issues. I imagine that harm probably isn’t that much of an unlikelihood here.

StefanosHill · 12/07/2023 21:32

MayThe4th · 12/07/2023 21:30

Well I find it somewhat of a coincidence that after the male in question had come out to say that it was lies, the Sun had suddenly been contacted by others about the same (unnamed at the time) presenter. Very coincidental that. After all, anyone making allegations wouldn’t have known who it was, just because it was all over twitter didn’t make it true at the time. Jeremy vine/Rylan/Nicky campbell’s names were all over twitter too, and had the twitter mood been different, any one of those could have been named as certainly the one, even though we know now that they weren’t.

As for downplaying Hugh Edwards’ mental health, that is just despicable. This is someone with a history of mental health issues, and regardless of what has gone on in their private life (if anything), accusing someone of using their mental health is pretty low. Or are people not going to be happy until he kills himself. Unlike Philip Schofield who brought that up unexpectedly, this is a person with a known history of mental health issues, who is now in hospital because of said issues. I imagine that harm probably isn’t that much of an unlikelihood here.

The second incident was via the BBC not The Sun and they verified it

JayAlfredPrufrock · 12/07/2023 21:44

Grim all round. Maybe no crime has been committed but I like to think the person reading the news has sone moral compass.

DoAhhDiddy · 12/07/2023 21:53

Sack him! Divorce him! Forget about him! Entitled dirty old git deserves everything coming to him. Only has himself to blame. Feel sorry for who he's been using to get his kicks, his wife and kids, not him. Typical playing the victim behaviour too. Wouldn't be surprised if more comes out about him in the coming days/weeks.

cansu · 12/07/2023 22:19

Why does someone who reads the news need to be more moral than others?

JayAlfredPrufrock · 12/07/2023 22:22

Just my personal preference

cansu · 12/07/2023 22:29

How do you know what other news readers are up to? Should they all be checked to make sure they are morally OK? Yes, it's sleazy but there are many people who cheat on their spouses and do sleazy things. Some of these people probably do very responsible jobs. They may even be brilliant at them. I took my cat to the vet. If I found out he was sexting an 18 year old does that mean he shouldn't be a vet and that I have a right to know this? My GP seems lovely. If I find out she likes going to sex clubs and has one night stands with young men does this mean she is a crap doctor and a danger to society?

Chickenkeev · 12/07/2023 22:51

cansu · 12/07/2023 22:29

How do you know what other news readers are up to? Should they all be checked to make sure they are morally OK? Yes, it's sleazy but there are many people who cheat on their spouses and do sleazy things. Some of these people probably do very responsible jobs. They may even be brilliant at them. I took my cat to the vet. If I found out he was sexting an 18 year old does that mean he shouldn't be a vet and that I have a right to know this? My GP seems lovely. If I find out she likes going to sex clubs and has one night stands with young men does this mean she is a crap doctor and a danger to society?

How does anyone 'know' that though? And why should we! Èveryone is entitled to a personal life.