Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards, focuses on how a young vulnerable man, played by Osian Morgan, came into contact with one of the most powerful figures in television.<\/p>\n
“Beyond the salacious curiosity around this story, I really thought there was another story worth telling, that of [Edwards’ victim] ‘Ryan’ and his family,” said Clunes. <\/p>\n
“Obviously the press and the media have focused on the fallen big man, Huw Edwards, which, of course, is a big story.<\/p>\n
“But behind that, there’s this lad and his family whose lives got turned upside down and rather spoiled. I’m not on any social media and I had no idea that this sort of thing went on, I really didn’t.”<\/p>\n
In July 2023, a national newspaper reported that “a top BBC star” had paid a teenager for sexual images.<\/p>\n
Days later, Edwards’ wife named him as the presenter at the centre of the scandal. <\/p>\n
He resigned from the BBC in April and was charged in June 2024 following a Metropolitan Police investigation.<\/p>\n
In September 2024, Edwards was sentenced to a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards, focuses on how a young vulnerable man, played by Osian Morgan, came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}