BBC Presenter Scandal #10 Huw Edwards

[MrsPiggleWiggle]

To be honest, the mother is far too invested in the provate life of her 20 year old son.

I imagine part of the reason money was exchanged was in order to keep it quiet. 35k is a lot of money, yet the mother felt the need to blab about something that was none of her business.

She wouldn't have kept quiet if she'd known what was going on when the son was 17. She's clearly learnt about this at a later date, and perhaps jumped to the wrong conclusions.

 

[Yesweknowyouhavekids]

Yeah. The threads took a bit of a turn since it was announced who it was. My comfort tattlers (who I won’t name but they are ones who I have either acknowledged as agreeing with or those from the Nicola Bulley thread, weirdly) have gone a bit quiet because they are probably feeling the same as me. And I feel a bit angry/frustrated at the direction the threads have gone.

Not that I only want to acknowledge those I agree with, but I do feel quite strongly about mental health and some of the content in this thread and the one before have made me quite uncomfortable.

Trust me I feel strongly about mental health as well having suffered for many many years. Having experienced the loss of several friends and family to suicide. I really am seeing a trend though if manipulative narcissistic men in a position of power using their mental health to hold all the cards .

 

[InTheDollsHouse]

I don't have first hand knowledge of The Priory itself, but I have been an NHS patient in a private psychiatric hospital whilst waiting for an NHS bed. I'm not saying that private hospitals are like fancy spas (though they're significantly better than NHS hospitals). I'm just saying that treatment there is much more accessible.

I’m sorry, I wrongly assumed from your previous post that you thought The Priory was an easy place to hide even if you weren’t actually in need of psychiatric treatment.

You’re right, it is more accessible, but they don’t have space for someone to just buy their way in, especially while there’s never any NHS MH beds.

 

[badwitch]

Its Tinseltits I feel sorry for, his reputation has been dragged though the mud.

Tbh at least I learnt he isn’t blind.

 

[Sea]

I don't feel sorry for him. He got caught interacting with young people.

If he's gay, bi, straight or in an agreed open relationship that's his concern - BUT he hasn't engaged with equals, he's engaged with young people (some nearly 3 times younger than him)
There's power imbalance.
There's bullshittery of his faith (incidentally he wrote in his book on news 'now occupies a position of power at least equal to that formerly enjoyed by faiths' jeremy paxman called him about it.
He crossed the line trying (abused his power) by hitting on people in his workplace.
And not giving a tit about his thrill and the impact on his children or his wife (if she didn't know)
Am I the only one who doesn't give a flying F that he announced the Queens death, that was his job.

Of course no one wants him to be unwell, but let's not pretend his a good guy.

 

[Merpedy]

Yes, trauma

And what if there's no trauma and it's just their preference?

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

I feel awful for his wife. As per usual, it's a woman mopping up a man's mistake. She must feel so humiliated and broken, but no time for her own feelings due to him needing support. I pray she has some good people around her because more and more allegations just keep coming. This is family shattering behaviour from him really no matter what any of us think on either side.

I have to admit it was starting to feel very witch-hunty by about thread #5 and I was starting to feel a bit of pity for him - because what if it wasn't him?

But if he'd made statement at the start "It was me. Not something I'm proud of but nothing illegal. Co-operating fully with the police and BBC management" etc, the whole thing would have been of much less interest to us, twitter, mumsnet, everyone, and wouldn't have blown out of all proportion.

I'm just hoping that this whole farrago doesn't influence any decision in any "silencing the press" cases which might be under judgement at the moment. Freedom of the press - even the right shower of incendiary rags that dominate the British newspaper stands at the moment - is vital, and we don't want it curtailed.

 

[Jwren]

I have said that if Huw is genuinely in hospital then I feel very, very sorry for him. There’s nothing nasty here.

That wasn’t what I said was ‘horrible’. It was you suggesting the mother was lying. Yet many of the same people believe Huw’s wife without any proof. Let’s hope the mother’s proof doesn’t end up being her son in a coffin, at least then perhaps you’d believe her.
So yes I do think it’s incredibly unkind to suggest the mother (who‘s probably out of her mind with worry over losing her son to drugs) is lying.

 

[Jaynefnw]

There’s literally no proof that this person is drug addicted, only their estranged mother's (paid for) account to the scum.

There is also no proof the mother was paid by the sun

 

[Dr.CM]

Why is everyone assuming stuff about HE's sexuality? He's a married man with five kids. At the very least that'd make him bisexual. Or maybe just someone experimenting with the idea of what very young men might be like, we don't even know if he acted on any of this.

Or maybe he was just getting other psychological thrills out of being a power player that aren't even really to do with sexual desire.

It's not as if he's done his Princess Diana and Bashire style sofa based interview yet is it? No signs of a Schofe like sobbing and OMG I'm gayyyyyy yet.

We have no freaking clue what HE thinks about his own sexuality or whether he even desires young men.

 

[InTheDollsHouse]

Yeah. The threads took a bit of a turn since it was announced who it was. My comfort tattlers (who I won’t name but they are ones who I have either acknowledged as agreeing with or those from the Nicola Bulley thread, weirdly) have gone a bit quiet because they are probably feeling the same as me. And I feel a bit angry/frustrated at the direction the threads have gone.

Not that I only want to acknowledge those I agree with, but I do feel quite strongly about mental health and some of the content in this thread and the one before have made me quite uncomfortable.

I’m (boldly, which is unusual for me ) counting myself in here! Am still here, just playing catch up after the 4yo’s bedtime!

 

[TeddyA]

There was no need for any of this. The BBC should have taken it seriously to begin with and we wouldn’t have been here. Not right what he did but it does feel a bit sinister. He should have been removed/allowed to retire quietly without the media circus. I hope everyone involved is getting the support they need

 

[rannyrart]

an older, powerful man taking a sexual interest in a much younger, vulnerable young person is definitely a cause for concern.

I’m glad when I was a teen, some of the people around me were less morally ambivalent than some people on this thread have been, because if they had I’d have probably been victim to some very unsavoury characters in my youth.

how does your being a teenage mum bear relevance to this situation? If you were groomed and impregnated by a significantly older man, then yeah. I’d “knock” that man down. But you were the young person in that situation and not an abuser? Why would anyone “knock” you down?

A young person, yes, but still nothing illegal has happened, so is it really appropriate to publicly judge someone based on morals, just because our opinion is that it’s disgusting - I’m not defending the age difference btw, because I don’t like it either, it’s more the throwing stones on something that’s immoral.

I meant with me being a teenage mum I was engaging in a lot of shoplifting just to raise my son, that was illegal, not immoral, totally different context like I said, but it was illegal, so therefore, worthy of knocking me down, right?

 

[louisababe]

The Sun has destroyed two families all because it wants to end the BBC

And Huw has no responsibility in this ?

 

[Squittel]

That wasn’t what I said was horrible. It was you suggesting the mother was lying. Yet many of the same people believe Huw’s wife without any proof. Let’s hope the mother’s proof doesn’t end up being her son in a coffin, at least then perhaps you’d believe her.
So yes I do think it’s incredibly unkind to suggest the mother (who‘s probably out of her mind with worry over her losing her son to drugs) is lying.

I’m not suggesting she’s lying, I just don’t necessarily believe everything she has said. Considering it’s clear she’s already lied/misunderstood the age of her child when the photos were shared.

 

[Merpedy]

Let’s hope the mother’s proof doesn’t end up being her son in a coffin, at least then perhaps you’d believe her

If there is an addiction, it's unlikely to end just because the main money supply has been cut off

 

[Hinchawakening]

Ask Rebecca vardy or lauryn goodman. They will be able to tell you the going rate of a story sold to the sun

I’d give them a bell but my phone went into the sea haha no seriously though like how much genuinely do we reckon the mum COULD have been paid? Say it’s £100 a story… I can’t see the mum just being after a payday, after all, we know after today how to go about getting new shoes but say she could go to the sun and say ‘I want £10k to tell you about a bbc n’ and the sun couldn’t hold their piss in getting a stab at taking down the bbc… then I can see the idea of her looking for a payday could be true

 

[Dr.CM]

Which Priory Hospital is a basic, no frills hospital?

Roehampton, people even complain about it.

 

[LadyWeatherwax]

Of course they won’t their work here is done BASTARDS !

Don't worry, it's not altruism. They're just too busy cleaning up all the wee that's leaked out from their Advertising Sales Team today.

 

[Asterix]

Imagine if it had been Jeremy vine that was doing this instead of Huw Edwards oh my lord haha

After his ME ME ME! routine today, I eagerly await the day he gets his own scandal thread.