{"id":847910,"date":"2026-03-24T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/847910\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:25:32","slug":"disgraced-bbc-presenter-huw-edwards-criticises-new-channel-5-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/847910\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards criticises new Channel 5 drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July 2023, a national newspaper reported that &#8220;a top BBC star&#8221; had paid a teenager for sexual images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Days later, Edwards&#8217; wife named him as the presenter at the centre of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He resigned from the BBC on health grounds, before being charged in June 2024 following a Metropolitan Police investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former newsreader, who was raised near Llanelli, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court to three charges of making indecent images of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They included seven category A images, the most serious classification, and were sent to Edwards on WhatsApp by a 25-year-old convicted sex offender called Alex Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards was ordered to attend a sex offender treatment programme as part of his sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July 2023, a national newspaper reported that &#8220;a top BBC star&#8221; had paid a teenager for sexual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-847910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116286267252782739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}