BBC Presenter Scandal #3

[Limey]

I feel like you’re missing an opportunity here not casting Ioan Gruffudd in this epic drama.

Just realised I also need:

Fiona Bruce: Vicky McClure
Jeremy Vine: Matthew Macfadyean

 

[L3moning]

For what it’s worth, I don’t believe HE is a paedophile. I don’t even believe that he’s done anything illegal. I do believe he’s been incredibly stupid however and his actions have caused lots of other male presenters to come under scrutiny. I do think some responsibility needs to be taken for that.

Unwise but not illegal strikes again. It's not his responsibility to stop people online going completely gaga, though.

 

[Por Que?]

The British economy will be even more decimated if they don’t name him soon - I dread to think the number of employees who have achieved absolutely nothing of note at work today because of this

It’s a good job I rarely have any work to do because we’re in this for the long haul now - thoughts and prayers to those Tattlers who must graft for their wages, it’s going to be a slog

 

[Tofino]

Let’s just say that Huw hasn’t paid anyone off and this whole thing is just a fabrication stirred up by a troubled mother… Can you imagine how awful a situation Huw is in now? Career potentially ruined, dignity lost, relationship with his wife and children ruined. It doesn’t bear thinking about.

He has to take some responsibility for his ‘unwise but not illegal’ dirty little secret surely. Perhaps he should have thought about his wife and family and his high profile career before paying a young man for explicit photos. He took a risk in engaging in that type of activity, it’s now backfired. Was it really worth it? I have very little sympathy for him tbh.

 

[ZanzibarDreaming]

BBC reporting more about the letter - it claims that the young person and their mother are estranged

 

[MeghanSnarkle]

Three and a half days of my life on this and all we get is… nothing to see here.

I sighed with Fiona.

It's all over sky news, the sun's statements saying they have receipts and want the BBC to get to the bottom of it .

 

[Warriorqueen]

so Mum told a lie, or victim has been paid off, or it never happened

Paid off, the unlimited amount of crack on offer was too tempting.

 

[diplofocus]

The least Fiona could have done was asked us if we were all okay.

This deserves more than just my cry laugh reaction

 

[badwitch]

Sorry if I mumble my jaw is still sitting comfortably on the floor.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FIONA FECKING BRUCE IS GOING ON?!

Your move, The Sun…

 

[Ndrangheta]

The tabloids are sitting on all kinds of shit I would imagine, what we want is the Julian Assange or Edward Snowden of showbiz gossip to hack them and then just dump it all out in one go. That would be hilarious ... TV and Radio would have to be taken off the air I reckon....and Parliament would probably go down the toilet too.

 

[House of Tea]

Teenager has lawyered up. Saying nothing happened.

 

[Jwren]

Newspaper front pages at 10 will be fun.

So HE may well be back on at 10
All joking aside it seems like the young male is backtracking, maybe because he could also end up in trouble. The poor mother must be climbing the walls.

 

[Graceless Grace]

How would someone find people who want to pay £35k for photos?? Asking for a friend

 

[Emlo]

I'm not even kidding, I don't feel like I should even like any male celebs any more, because they always turn out to be sleazebags. Everyone from charming actors from my teenage days, to writers and artists I admire, to some guy on the news I thought was an upstanding pillar of society. I don't know if it's worth trusting a male celeb ever again.

sorry to break it to you but it’s not just the celebs

 

[Baconbutties]

Usually hate my 2 hours journey back up north from London but it's gone mega quick today with all the tattle scrolling

 

[LadyWeatherwax]

I’ve just read the Daily Mail and it said the police are not looking into any criminal charges after having just a Zoom meeting with the BBC

The Daily Mail don't like the BBC very much.

Yes, arguably the police could continue with a prosecution if the victim refused to cooperate, and they do this with DV cases most often.

To prove it in this case though, they're going to have to trawl through three years worth of electronic messages over possibly multiple websites and apps, with two people who have expensive, aggressive lawyers who will tell them to fuck off and get a court order for the passwords. It will take literally years and cost many thousands of pounds.

All that to prove that someone who was probably 17 years and 11 months old might have fiddled age verification on an adult site then willingly sent pictures to an older man who had the reasonable expectation that the person he was messaging was over the age of 18?

Someone at the CPS has probably already had a heart attack just thinking about it.

 

[CrumbledRhubarb]

i imagine something like this happens-
the young person was getting money for his contact with the presenter, without a scooby doo who he was. The mother comes along - and recognizes him sitting on his sofa in his pants and tells her child who it is. Her child then realizes that they can get a lot more money out of this situation this then means they can afford more crack and their addiction spirals- the mother now doesn’t know what to do- she tells the presenter to stop but he can’t because he’s being blackmailed by her child who would probably have a wealth of messages etc that the presenter doesn’t want made public.
She knows this is what is happening, and is angry at the presenter for putting his career before her child’s drug habit, she chooses to go to their employer first, this does nothing so she goes to the papers as she can’t go to the police because her child is blackmailing the presenter.

 

[IrishMeeja]

So HE may well be back on at 10
All joking aside it seems like the young male is back tracking, maybe because he could also end up in trouble. The poor mother must be climbing the walls.

I seriously question the mother here. It’s felt dodgy all along and there’s details that have never added up. We’re almost certainly missing a big piece of the puzzle and the mother feels a likely reason why.

 

[Copacapybara]

All we have to support that is the questionable words of a mother who went to The Sun instead of the police.

The lack of police involvement even after they were made aware is relatively telling for me.

Also why the Sun? Over any other paper? It’s not exactly known to be a bastion of justice!

 

[TbilisiPeach]

I'm pretty sure George Osborne is 'the mother'.

Congrats, G!