Why is this the thing the country cares about bascally some guy did an onlyfans with someone of legal age? Is it creepy? Yup that's a huge age gap. But looks like it's had the nation on tenter hooks Reddit's UK sub put a megathread up for what? Other than being the usual news outlet suckups they've turned that sub into.
I havn't paid attention to it but noticed the rags were full of this like some sort of whodunnit that they seemed to have a greasy pact for.
More likely that the economy is at the point of collapse. The mortgages story is the tip of the iceberg. UK's value abroad has gone into freefall. Country's economic value is at lowest point in entire history. No one in press or mainstream media reporting this.
Because The Sun has run it on their front page four 4 days now and the coverage has been amplified by the rest of the Murdock outlets. They hate the BBC. The BBC News then had to run it front-and-centre to avoid it looking complascent/covering up. Meanwhile the mystery-identity angle sent social media into overdrive. It was a perfact storm.
Here is Vicky Flind's statement on behalf of her husband, given to PA news agency, in full:
"In light of the recent reporting regarding the 'BBC Presenter' I am making this statement on behalf of my husband Huw Edwards, after what have been five extremely difficult days for our family.
"I am doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children.
"Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues. As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years.
"The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future.
"Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published.
"To be clear Huw was first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday.
"In the circumstances and given Huw's condition I would like to ask that the privacy of my family and everyone else caught up in these upsetting events is respected.
"I know that Huw is deeply sorry that so many colleagues have been impacted by the recent media speculation. We hope this statement will bring that to an end."
The stench of homophobia hanging around this story is vile.
All today's newspaper front pages (except The Star that ran something about Klingons travelling to Mars?) decided this is the biggest thing going on in the cuntry today. Meanwhile, Bank of England tells us that 1 million households will be paying an additional £500 a month on their mortgages and that it's ok because the banks will be able to deal with all the defaults on payments.
The Sun... that virtuous newspaper that used to pay 16 year old girls to leave school so they could pose naked for Page 3... made it clear this was a male "star" and a boy. It's a re-run of the Phillip Scofield nonsense. This wouldn't be front page of all the papers and radio stations if it was an older man and a teenage young woman. Sure, they'll be some coverage but not as much as this homophobic stuff
There's no suggestion that he abused his position in the BBC over younger colleagues, is there? Or are you suggesting that any relationship between an older and younger person is immoral in some way?
Difficult to say. If the mucky photos the teenager was laid to send him took place after their 18th birthday, if the threatening messages he sent on social media weren't too sinister and if nothing else emerges now his name is well-known, he might be able to weather the storm and spin it as a redemption narrative then he might get a documentary out of it that'd clean his name up enough that he could be back behind the desk.
So far the police have said that nothing illegal has taken place. But I think he'll probably be too unwell and his reputation will be too harmed to do any work for some time
Plus like you say if there is anything else that hasn't come to light yet that might change things
If he's not acted illegally then what should he fear? His private life is his own.
Shame that the same witch-hunting standards aren't adopted by the press when it comes to our former PM. Is that 9 children or as many as 14? (It's ok though because Boris is a red hot-blooded "man's man").
The police have concluded, finally, that nothing illegal took place.
So it's down to whether people are that bothered that he paid for mucky photos or said not nice things to someone online. I think the latter isn't even going to move the needle.. but the first, could potentially be career ending, depending on the actual details.
I definitely think his career is over - I can’t see his reputation ever recovering from this, even if he could overcome the shame and embarrassment of going in front of the camera again.