BBC Presenter Scandal #3

[Timz]

It's illegal to make a British crime drama without Sarah Lancashire.

And that cow in Anneka, Nicola Walker

 

[pommobear]

Fake advertising for the BBC??

You what?

 

[jookey]

Here's what I think -

Young person sells nudes and has made £35k out of it.
They have also developed a drug habit.
Mum sees this and reports it all to the BBC, which is where the person who was giving the young person all of this money works.
Young person is hooked on drugs and needs money so decides to get a lawyer to say it's all rubbish, in the hopes the money for drugs will continue to flow.

Yup, very likely, drug addicts will go to all lengths to fund their addiction.

 

[steel2001]

They didn’t, apparently the letter was sent on Friday, The Sun just decided to ignore it.

But then why not come out straight away?

 

[savedlatin21]

Is that definitely his official twitter account though?

It is

 

[jookey]

Is that definitely his official twitter account though?

I think so yeah.

 

[Jwren]

I read earlier that they ran the story based on signed affidavits rather than actually seeing evidence 🫠🫠🫠🫠

It‘s not what is stated here

 

[stardust1]

Itv saying lad told the sun on friday it wasn’t true

 

[missxtl]

If nothing happened why is he suspended still / why won’t they just give us his name? Mr Innocent doesn’t sound as good

Why has he been quiet for the last few days?!

 

[Olebiscuitbarrel]

Surely if there was no truth to this, Huw would've come out with a statement such as "I am aware that xyzzy have made allegations against me in relation to xyzzy, I can confirm that there is no truth to these accusations and I have instructed my lawyers to do XYZ"


the silence speaks louder, no ?

True, others have done similar.

 

[Bowbow82]

Is everyone still thinking it’s HE or with some articles on google naming GN that’s it’s him instead? Too many plot twists today!!!

 

[shellie]

Might have been, whoever Dan Wooton worked for

It was The Sun. He put a picture on the front of the paper that was clearly edited as the bruise was much brighter than the pic shown in the US trial.

 

[Jaynefnw]

Any evidence that the young person is actually a “crack addict” ?

How would you prove that? unless his mother releases pictures of him using. Or a drug deal going down?

 

[Ballyclover]

Search on where?

Google

 

[House of Tea]

Frank Bough - that avuncular figure in the cosy pullovers. Was what he did illegal? That was a shocker and he fell on his sword so to speak.

 

[Timz]

What if there’s no young person’s lawyer that made the statement but a BBC one…!

why no live statement outside BBC HQ

 

[mechanix]

That was Karen Matthews, Shannon was her daughter.
Had to clarify, it's already a minefield in here, we don't need to mix up perpetrator and victim.

Oh whoops - will edit thanks!!!

 

[me myself and karma]

As his parents have just said how did he afford a lawyer?

Free? For the notary? Like Depp & Heard?

 

[givepeasachance]

Here we go!

 

[JayWhere]

In the case that this is all in fact not true…

I wonder how much it would take for the BBC or another company to suspend someone. What level of proof would it require/ how easy would it be to ruin someone’s reputation

Not saying that’s what’s happened, just interesting

as things are moving fast apologies if someone has already answered. Once an allegation is put to a company the accused will almost always be suspended to allow for investigation, you’ve usually got to have some proof. That being said, someone I know went to their HR upset about disgusting messages, showed some of them and bam, investigation and suspension for the accused,HR didn’t even ask for response etc until after the suspension. They usually have to go with the person is telling the truth rather than believing it would be a lie at the first instance