{"id":493012,"date":"2026-03-24T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493012\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:59:08","slug":"disgraced-bbc-presenter-huw-edwards-criticises-new-channel-5-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493012\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards criticises new Channel 5 drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In July 2023, a national newspaper reported that &#8220;a top BBC star&#8221; had paid a teenager for sexual images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Days later, Edwards&#8217; wife named him as the presenter at the centre of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He resigned from the BBC on health grounds, before being charged in June 2024 following a Metropolitan Police investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former newsreader pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court to three charges of making indecent images of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They included seven category A images, the most serious classification, and were sent to Edwards on WhatsApp by a 25-year-old convicted sex offender called Alex Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edwards was ordered to attend a sex offender treatment programme as part of his sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July 2023, a national newspaper reported that &#8220;a top BBC star&#8221; had paid a teenager for sexual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493012","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=493012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}