BBC Scandal - Huw Edwards formally suspended over payment of explicit images of teenager Read OP*

It is has long became the norm for these stories about celebrities. Nearly didn't bat an eyelid at the title until I realised it wasn't about Philip Schofield as it was BBC in the title.

John Kilraine also reported that the BBC can't make contact with the family who raised the initial complaint, and that The Sun aren't naming names - that struck me as odd, is there a possibility that this is fake?

While not exactly decent conduct is it actually illegal though? They say 'teenager' but that could be a 19 year old.

While that's true, the utter hypocrisy of the likes of the Sun being the driver of the story, with their history of publishing what would now probably be considered child abuse imagery (Page 3 girls) is loathsome to behold.

They used to print pics of 16 year old topless girls. Wouldn't go down well now, I'd imagine!

The likes of Sam Fox was only 16 when she first posed topless in The Sun. That is pretty close to child exploitation.

ok thanks, didnt know that

It’s what I’m thinking myself- it’s a hellofa lot of money for a few pics. It would also explain why the alleged victim or victims mother to be completely correct went to the BBC and then the papers and not the police

Very bad for the presenter either way but yeah, there’s possibly a few strands to this story

What George Osborne story?

Ok, that's heavy.

People are hugely interested in UK news over here. Go into any hotel from Kerry to Donegal and Sky News, not RTE will be playing. Same at the airports. First televised thing many will see upon arriving here is a UK news channel which is bizarre. Hello magazine used to sell big too because so many mammies and grannies love the royal family and there are loads of UK papers here such as the Daily Mail. Don't get it myself but it's always been thus.

Not sure where I read that so I can't. I have been reading and watching a lot of YouTube videos on this and I might have heard it in a YouTube video.

A lot of people on Twitter accusing a lot of people...I'd expect a few solicitors letters!

Not sure how you read a YouTube video. You stated in your post "I read the victims mother had gone to the Police"

No and I am not stating this is true as I don't know all the facts. All I know is that it is alleged.

Worrying about what he posts on twitter will be the least of his worries now.

As well as the girls often being 16, the photos were sometimes taken at 15 to be published on or around their 16th birthday - though that was more of a Sunday Sport thing.

It's not a girl.

Oh yes if it's him he's fairly well known.

Still,at least it's not Dimbleby or Attenborough or Lineker or some other national treasure

As I mentioned earlier.

Won’t damage the BBC long term per se…. Whoever it is is hardly going to admit in an interview with them that they like getting their rocks off with 17 year old lads on the internet and the BBC hire them…

the BBC has over 21,000 employees worldwide so bound to be the odd wrong un… you can’t filter every bogey… a good cv, experience, a quality interview, verifiable references and they are in.

The clamour for information on who it is all very weird in my opinion. Hoping it isn't this person or hoping it is such and such a person.

There's a young person at the centre and everyone is obsessing about the BBC presenter.

It's all really oddly prurient and brings out the worst in people in my view.

Terrible the way people feel they need to come out and say it was not them.

Tomorrow will tell.