BBC Presenter Scandal #3

[MuchoGusto]

Also can I tell you something if you were to ask most Welsh people, Derek Brockway would trump Huw Edwards in the national hero stakes. Bet no one outside of gods country has heard of him though

S’mae! I often channel cheat on Derek with ITV Wales Weather’s lovely Ruth too

 

[diplofocus]

All this talk of the BBC presenter scandal and not one single word about the deadline for Johnson to hand over emails, WhatsApp messages and texts etc. Call my cynical (and I hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the arse) but whoever the presenter is* is one hell of a scapegoat today.



*hope it's not HE...

They'll come for him tomorrow. Hopefully.

 

[Ndrangheta]

How do you know his wife isn't fine with it? People have all different types of relationships.

True, the biggest pervert I've ever met was my ex gf ...

 

[InkHeart]

I'm alone in the office and I literally can't stop scrolling here!

 

[jamesgets]

He presents the 10pm news weekdays only

Mon-Thurs only.

 

[Merpedy]

RE statement from The Sun:
The mothers complaint was always about the child being sent money and then using it for drugs. Has it been shown to them that the child started doing this at 17?

I know the legal team and etc etc but I just have very little trust for The Sun

 

[dressinggownofdoom]

Nicky Campbell: John Barrowman
Tim Davie: surprise acting debut from Gary Lineker

Tim Davie has to be David Schneider

 

[ladygutters]

Bombshell - sky news reporting that lawyer representing young person says claims are ‘rubbish’

 

[Jwren]

A) It hasn't been reliably confirmed if the child is a son or a daughter. Various news outlets have used both genders.

B) Just because the parent hasn’t gained anything doesn’t mean that their expectation initially wasn’t financial gain. Or it could just be that the parent has a fractured relationship with the child and wanted to project the cause of that onto someone else.

The fact is we KNOW almost nothing.

I think the BBC Culture Editor stating on Friday evening (live on air) that the victim is male is a pretty reliable source.

 

[LadyWeatherwax]

So this happened a couple of years ago?

The mother is alleging that it started three years ago, and has continued almost to this day.

 

[Okgolightly]

Like somebody has already said, it’s irrelevant at this point if HE isn’t named officially. If he isn’t presenting the news at 10 (and all other male presenters are accounted for) that’s as good as naming him surely…

 

[Limey]

Can we have cameos from Mr Tumble and Fireman Sam too? Throw in some sort of police line up scene

Noted.

 

[Beavana]

Maybe other people were paying the man/ woman for photos, calls, etc all along (of or not) and also the bbc person parents saw pic of said bbc person from screenshot on their phone? and weirdly so upset for their son/ daughter, didn’t go to the police but instead to the bbc…
Something is off about it all, siunds blackmail/ extortion somewhere

 

[AlexTwist]

So are we expecting to see HE on 10pm news

He's still suspended pending investigation but it would be untenable for him to read the news when he is the news in this way.

 

[InTheDollsHouse]

I don’t think a high end lawyer would take on someone knowing they were being paid off.

The young person in the Schofe situation had his lawyers not only paid for, but chosen, by Schofe.

 

[SaLou]

It could be that he was getting so much hate via DMs that he deactivated it. Also, some weirdos will start photoshopping his face on to things and his family will be targeted. Even if he isn’t innocent, his family shouldn’t be published everywhere. Imagine if he is innocent and he’s had to deal with all this shit.

You can turn off your DMs, or choose only to allow people you follow to message you.

 

[pixxyy]

I think it's important to remember that the victim is possibly still being manipulated by the presenter.

If what the scum said is true regarding the phone calls, that would scare the shit out of anyone enough to make them shut up, especially if they've been paid off too.

This whole situation is super messy and I feel for everyone involved right now. The parents for being pushed to go to a paper due to their concerns over their child, the child at the middle of all this who, if everything is true, was groomed and exploited, and the presenter since right now, there isn't any proof of wrongdoing.

Obviously if proof does come out that the parents are right then the presenter deserves everything coming to them, including facing a court trial. If there isn't any proof, and the parents are lying, then this has just ruined an innocent man's career, especially if the name being banded around isn't the right person.

Apparently HE phoned the lad on Sunday which implies he might not have already known about the Friday Denial?

 

[pommobear]

At this point if it is him he'd be better off just getting in front of it and admitting it.

 

[Squittel]

AI generated pictures are normally very bad with hands. I'm 50/50 on the validity of that picture but I need more analysis on the lighting and textures and whatever than running it through some app to say it's definitely fake

Yeah, I think it’s more likely to be photoshopped than AI or a deep fake.

 

[grace28]

Post leveson even if they have the photos of individual in his pants on the sofa (of which I’m a bit doubtful) is this public interest?

I’ve being reading about how low on funds the Murdoch press are after the Fox News payout and the talk tv bailout. Would they risk it all on this? I’m not sure. The government want bbc fee gone and will push for an expose, but I think they might hold off.