Huw Edwards

[EscortInspector]

[beautyaddict]

I feel sadness for him , I am guessing he has had to hide his sexuality all his life and eventually he took risks and here we are . He has suffered well know mental health issues the root of them may be this secret he has kept inside. Did Edwards exploit young men using his fame ? not looking anything like savill from what I see so far.

The Sun denying they knew of his mental health issues now, thats a joke . There has been a concerted effort to destroy the BBC , is this part of it , maybe but we have a man in hospital now who has been cleared by police . Jeremy Kyle comes to mind . Huw Edwards to me looks to be a man who has struggled all his life and that cannot have been the privileged abuse of power life . He went on apps anonymously, not exactly exploitation

The Sun publishes topless photos of 16 year old girls is being reported , they were only helping the parents ...yeah right . A man with a flaw if even that at worst is my take . A man who was crushed by his sexuality that he felt he had to hide . I see fear in much of this . I see cruelty from the Sun and I see a desire to destroy the BBC as was the intent for Channel 4 , hello Trump/Putin /Erdogan

Given it has been general knowledge I am guessing The Sun hoping to get more dirt . A man in turmoil , years of pain eventually broke and sought the company of another man /men . The age thing is part of the problem but no police action says legal . I liked him as a presenter as to so called power that he had , really what power in comparison to a Sun reporter threatening someone to get a story . Maybe more to come out but The Sun should be seen for what it is and always has been , looking for outrage try them . I saw comment on Hillsborough, quiet right and editor at the time , well he is being interviewed on Sky about it , nice

[Barney Rubble]

Precisely what I was trying to say BA. The SCUM is what that rag should be called.

[SteveB]

Quote:- "I wish [Huw Edwards] well. The Sun inflicted terror on Huw despite no evidence of any criminal offence. This is no longer a BBC crisis, it is a crisis for the paper. Huw's privacy must now be respected. Social media also needs speedy reform."
from David Yelland, who was editor of The Sun from 1998 to 2003.

Lot of similar sentiments about. I would agree with them.

[Barney Rubble]

Quote:- "I wish [Huw Edwards] well. The Sun inflicted terror on Huw despite no evidence of any criminal offence. This is no longer a BBC crisis, it is a crisis for the paper. Huw's privacy must now be respected. Social media also needs speedy reform."
from David Yelland, who was editor of The Sun from 1998 to 2003.

Lot of similar sentiments about. I would agree with them.

Hopefully this will put the Scum in the spotlight rather than the BBC.

[EscortInspector]

Huw Edwards and Philip Schofield, two closeted men chasing after jailbait rent boys. Paying vast sums of money to keep the closet door shut and continue the charade. Both discovered and both suicidal. Why don't they just fuck/sext guys in their twenties? No sympathy for self-inflicted wounds.

Regarding the mental health side of things, what he did was sordid and stupid, and I believe that he should suffer the consequences of his perfectly legal actions. If that means living his life as a gay man, being sacked, suspended; whatever.

The Sun publishing topless 16 year olds (Playboy published full frontal nudes of Brooke Shields when she was 10 years old) is no better and only feeds into the "high society, paedophile elite" trope. Come to think of it so does the current crisis at the BBC, and the Savile crisis and the statue by Eric Gill. Seems to be a pattern, not just spatially but temporally; at least in the eyes of the licence fee paying public.

[Mucker]

Bit rich indeed from a paper that had sixteen-year-old topless page three models. The Sun is not fit to criticism the likes of the BBC. For all its faults, its one of the better news outlets.

Are you saying there was something coercive and/or illegal going on with the 16 year old Page 3 model?

[Mucker]

I wonder if people would regard Huw Edwards' case less sympathetically if the allegations involved young girls?

[WeeJimmy]

Just get rid of the BBC, no one watches it anymore as only shite and its corrupt as fuk and these are the ones that protected Jimmy Saville and we pay our TV licences to (or suppose to)
DISBAND NOW

[Mucker]

Just get rid of the BBC, no one watches it anymore as only shite and its corrupt as fuk and these are the ones that protected Jimmy Saville and we pay our TV licences to (or suppose to)
DISBAND NOW

I wouldn't say there are many here who pay their TV licence to the BBC.

But in what way did the BBC "protect" Jimmy Saville? (Interesting how JS has cropped up in a discussion about Huw Edwards - are we seeing them as the same thing? I'd have thought it was a bit early for that.)