BBC to move ahead with new presenters after tortuous negotiations over Huw Edwards' departure. Friends angered after BBC statement offered no thanks to presenter for 40 years service
BBC to move ahead with new presenters after tortuous negotiations over Huw Edwards' departure. Friends angered after BBC statement offered no thanks to presenter for 40 years service
Suspended since July 2023 following allegations that he paid a teenager for sexually explicit images, Edwards declined to engage with a BBC probe into separate claims about his conduct with staff, citing ongoing mental health issues. The lack of recognition for Edwards’s contribution in the BBC statement – which said the BBC “has accepted his resignation which it believes will allow all parties to move forward” – indicated frosty relations between the Welshman and his long-term employer.
The logjam was broken following reports that Edwards was expected to be named as the BBC’s highest-paid newsreader in this year’s Annual Report, having earned up to £439,000, despite being off air since last July.
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