BBC Presenter Scandal #3

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My money’s on The rum with troothbombs tomorrow
Let them take down the BBC titan
 
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Well after the rollercoaster that has been the last few days, my contender for the biggest revelation:

If you drag the screen down on your phone on tattle, it refreshes. Mind blown.
 
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That Kelvin MacKenzie has deleted his video of him saying HE name! We will never know for 100% who it is…but his name is now tainted until he makes a statement!
 
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A legal experts on Sky News said that it's very interesting that the word 'rubbish' has been used in the letter from the child's legal representative. He said that word has been chosen deliberately, meaning that the claims written in the Sun are not all false; he said if they had been false, a stronger word would have been used to categorically denied them.
The words "there is no truth in them" were also used, though. Which is rather stronger.
 
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Just a thought: Theoretically, would deleting one’s Instagram anonymise any DMs that you had sent? Say, sexually explicit messages to young men? So the words would still be in messages but not linked to anyone’s username?
 
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Because it isn’t in The Sun’s interest to have this information in the public domain. The BBC would be far more legally responsible and only make information public on a need-to-know basis. That’s the difference between gutter journalism and responsible behaviour.
Got it, that makes more sense. I read that the lawyers had been appointed today, not Friday! So basically if they don't come with the receipts they potentially a defamation case on their hands. Bloody vultures.
 
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It's also important to remember that the presenter might actually be the true victim in all of this.
That's what I said in the rest of my post though, about the presenter being a victim. I feel for everyone involved right now. I just meant if the allegations are true, then the boy may still be being manipulated.
 
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Don’t worry about it, you will get free nosh, WiFi and TV in prison and not have to pay for the BBC licence fee
Prisoners have to pay for TV. The government makes millions each year from it and I don’t know where you’ve got the idea of free WIFI from, they’re not allowed internet access.
 
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For what it’s worth (which is very little indeed)….
I think it’s very likely that it did happen but the detail of it starting when the younger party was 17 is debatable.
it also sounds like the young person doesn’t regard themselves as a victim (whether they actually are is a different matter).
the CRACK c thing still seems very strange to me. It’s such a tabloid moral panic trigger.
I am a parent. If I was alarmed for the reasons outlined I would go to the authorities not to the older man’s very high profile employer and then a tabloid. The police would put a swift end to it, including the employer being made aware. I’ve not been put in this position thank goodness. But I wouldn’t be seeing it as the time or place to try a little maverick justice of my own. I’d follow the normal, obvious process. I just can’t think of a legitimate reason anybody would do anything else.
and, it might be that someone else has given the young person the funds to lawyer up. But there’s nothing completely wrong with that- if both directly involved parties are having lurid accusations made about them which they believe to be unfounded, and one of them has the funds to defend it, why would they not do that?
 
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If it's not true, why the suspension? The Sun must've made the BBC aware of the evidence they have, and possibly shared it with them. As someone said earlier, why did the young person wait until now to say it's not true? Why let so many people be thrown under the bus over the last 72 hours?
Why would a supposed caring mother very concerned about drug use tell such lies? Why hasn't Huw made a statement as no one elses name is being bandied about anymore? None of it makes any sense!

ETA: Agree with poster who said this could be a distraction. But why ruin the career of a much beloved news anchor? I just don't get it.
It was me that said this was a distraction. I do believe there’s something to this story. I think HE has to be the most realistic candidate. However, I think there’s got to be a reason The Sun ran the story without saying the victim denied it. They could have sat on it for a week or two to investigate the claims but preferred to print a half arsed story. Now nobody will probably find out the truth.
Still think The Sun are disgusting. They had a countdown to Sam Fox’s 16th birthday with photos printed the day of her birthday. Therefore had to be taken when she was 15. Dirty, filthy rag.
 
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This is chaos.

It’s wild to think what could happen next. At this stage, I don’t even think I’d be shocked if it wasn’t him after all 😂
 
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I'm not saying I'm sure HE hasn't done anything, but I really don't think that taking a social media account down proves anything either way. People, even victims, often take down their socials during a media storm because they're getting thousands of messages, thousands of people are combing through every post they've written in ten years, their devices must be giving them a hundred beeps a minute and they must feel really overwhelmed by it all.

Graham Norton took his Twitter down when all he'd said was that he might not have JK Rowling on his podcast again. Stephen Fry has taken his down several times when he can't stand get nasty comments.

(Please please for the love of God, no one derail this thread into talk about JKR or gender issues. I'm literally just saying people take their socials down for reasons other than being a criminal.)
 
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