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Huw Edwards has right this moment resigned from his £439,000-a-year job on the BBC due to ‘medical recommendation’ from his medical doctors, the company has revealed.
Britain’s most well-known newsreader, 62, has been off air since final July after he was accused of paying a teen for sexually specific pictures.
In February, the BBC apologised to the younger particular person’s household, who’d complained about Edwards two months earlier than he was suspended, acknowledging that there had been ‘shortcomings’ in the way in which it had handled the case.
However the BBC mentioned right this moment that its star anchor, who broke the information of Queen Elizabeth II’s dying and introduced protection of most main nationwide occasions, has left the BBC on well being grounds.
There was no point out of allegations he despatched greater than £35,000 to a teen in return for sexually specific images.
A company spokesman mentioned: ‘Huw Edwards has right this moment resigned and left the BBC. After 40 years of service, Huw has defined that his resolution was made on the premise of medical recommendation from his medical doctors.
‘The BBC has accepted his resignation which it believes will enable all events to maneuver ahead’.
Edwards has by no means publicly commented within the 9 months since he was suspended. MailOnline understands he acquired no repay from the BBC – however had been paid his £439,000-a-year wage whereas he was suspended. He leaves with instant impact.
Huw Edwards was final seen on the display on July 5 final yr when he coated King Charles’ go to to Scotland (pictured). 9 months on he has left the BBC on well being grounds
The broadcaster, 62, introduced that the Queen had died in September 2022
In a press release launched by Mr Edward’s spouse Vicky Flind final yr, she mentioned that he was receiving in-patient hospital care following the claims first reported in The Solar that he paid a teen for specific images
A mocked up model of a reported Instagram message trade between the BBC star and a teen
He was named by his personal spouse because the BBC star accused of paying £35,000 to a weak teenager in return for specific images – minutes after Scotland Yard dropped their probe into the allegations final yr.
Vicky Flind issued the shock assertion and revealed her husband, 61, who was final on display on July 5 final yr in the course of the King’s go to to Scotland, was ‘affected by severe psychological well being points’ following the claims that emerged in The Solar the next day.
Vicky and Huw and have 5 grown up kids, introduced up collectively in south London.
The Mail revealed this months that Huw has taken sanctuary in his beloved Wales and is being comforted in Carmarthenshire by his mom Aerona.
He was the company’s highest paid newsreader, with a pay bracket of £435,000 – £439,999 within the yr 2022/2023, based on the company’s most up-to-date annual report.
This was up from £410,000 – £414,000 the yr earlier than, placing him fourth on the 2022/23 listing.
He was accused of sending money to a teen in return for sexual images over three years, beginning when the youth was 17. The teenager is alleged to have use it to fund a crack cocaine behavior.
The Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police each mentioned that no felony offence had been dedicated by the presenter on this case.
The newsreader has been off air since final July after reviews claiming he paid a teen for sexually specific pictures
The Mail understands the 62-year-old newsreader has taken sanctuary in his beloved Wales and is being comforted in Carmarthenshire by his mom Aerona (pictured)
Edwards, who till right this moment was nonetheless reportedly receiving his full £439,000 wage, had appeared extra achieved than ever within the months previous his suspension, incomes lavish plaudits for his commentary on Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.
There have been even requires him to be knighted.
Declaring that the thought ’embarrassed’ him, Edwards ready with trademark rigour for his position main the BBC’s coronation protection. ‘I would be mendacity if I mentioned I did not practise in my very own thoughts,’ he defined.
‘I am typically on the Tube considering, ‘What would I say if this occurred?’ or, ‘What’s one of the best flip of phrase for this?’
He additionally took care to make sure that he was in peak bodily situation, resuming the punishing boxing periods that noticed him shed three stone in 2019 below the supervision of former mild welterweight champion, Clinton McKenzie.
‘I’m going to must lose a stone, no query,’ mentioned Edwards, who, other than his BBC wage, raked in £25,000 in a single month in 2022 from talking engagements. ‘I’m only a bit too tight across the waist.’
Nevertheless it was Ms Flind, with whom Edwards has 5 kids, now all adults, who stepped ahead on July 12 final yr.
By then, the identification of the unnamed BBC presenter had impressed such a firestorm of hypothesis that Gary Lineker and Jeremy Vine felt obliged to disclaim that they had been the person in query.
In the long run his spouse who blew the whistle on her husband.
Edwards, who was born in Bridgend and introduced up in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984. Pictured on the six o’clock information in 1999
Edwards, a married father-of-five, labored on the BBC for 4 many years. He has spoken brazenly about his psychological well being and getting fitter lately
The presenter shared with BBC Radio Cymru that he had misplaced weight in 2019
The small print of the weak teenager alleged to be hooked on crack appeared in The Solar.
After that three extra individuals made allegations towards the broadcaster.
The well-known presenter allegedly started paying {the teenager} once they had been 17, and despatched them the cash which they used to fund a drug habit.
The kid’s mom, who first made the stunning allegations in Could final yr, informed the Solar she felt ‘sick’ each time she sees the person on TV.
The star was mentioned to have requested ‘performances’ from the person, who informed their mom they’d then ‘get their bits out’.
A proper criticism was made to the BBC by the household.
The younger particular person on the centre of the controversy mentioned by way of a lawyer, based on BBC Information At Six, that nothing inappropriate or illegal occurred with the unnamed presenter.
Nonetheless, their mom informed The Solar they stand by the claims and a spokesperson for the newspaper mentioned it was ‘now for the BBC to correctly examine’.
A bombshell second declare then emerged when the identical presenter was accused of sending abusive and menacing messages to an individual of their 20s.
The second particular person claimed to have been contacted anonymously by the male presenter on a courting app.
They declare they had been put below stress to satisfy with the star however by no means did, the BBC reported.
Once they hinted on-line that they could identify them, they allege they had been despatched abusive messages that had been full of expletives.
Based on the BBC, the dialog between the particular person of their 20s and the presenter moved onto different platforms after starting on a courting app.
The presenter then revealed his identification and requested the younger particular person to not inform anybody.
The younger particular person later posted on-line alluding to having had contact with a BBC presenter and hinting they could identify him.
The presenter then despatched a variety of ‘threatening messages’ which the BBC says it has seen and confirmed got here from a telephone quantity belonging to the presenter.
The BBC mentioned the younger particular person felt ‘threatened’ by the messages and ‘stays scared’.
Mr Edwards enjoys a espresso and a pastry together with his canine in April final yr close to his south London house
Simply hours later, the star was then branded a ‘full hypocrite’ for allegedly breaking Covid guidelines to satisfy a 23-year-old stranger from a courting website.
The unnamed presenter was accused of defying the third nationwide lockdown for an encounter with a teen in 2021 whereas the BBC was on the identical time telling hundreds of thousands of individuals to comply with the principles as a part of its protection of the pandemic.
The third particular person mentioned they met up after months of interactions, and that the presenter despatched them £650 in money and requested them for an image, The Solar reported.
They claimed the presenter travelled into a special county to satisfy them at their flat in February 2021 when guidelines included a keep at house order and mixing solely between family bubbles.
The particular person claimed on the assembly, which got here months after they began speaking on the courting website in November 2020, ‘he got here spherical for an hour…. We simply chatted. He was obsessive about me making him a cup of tea.’
It comes because the BBC has a busy yr of stories which incorporates a number of elections, large sporting occasions and the continuing wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
Incoming BBC chairman Samir Shah, made this level to MPs forward of his appointment final yr.
He mentioned: ‘Subsequent yr is prone to be election yr. It’s BBC journalism’s World Cup . . . We should be match match. We have to have discovered every little thing from studio debates to allocation of airtime.’
Clive Myrie, 59, has been tipped because the information presenter who might entrance the BBC’s election protection and succeed Edwards because the Information at Ten anchor.
Sophie Raworth, Laura Kuenssberg and Nick Robinson are additionally in rivalry to host election evening.
