Huw Edwards #11 BBC Presenter Scandal

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Police say no laws were broken ......

hes acussed of buying illicit pictures from a 17 year old .

however - the pollice did NOT search his home or hard drives - there could be a PAYG phone full of iimages in a drawer somewhere .

HOW can the police say they investigated ???


seems to me police couldnt be bothered !....... if a bloke in your street was acussed of having those pics - there would be a search warrant .
 
AdmirablePapaya said:
I was positively gleeful when Schofield got his comeuppance... but for some reason I can't shake feeling a knot in my stomach over this. Is it just me / am I being too sentimental? Maybe it's just because I always felt like Schofe was a nasty snake in all his interactions with others, but I didn't get the same feeling from someone that simply read out the news.

From Sophie's reaction when announcing that he'd been named, and his wife's statement, I do think it's possible he made an attempt on his own life before going into in-patient treatment.

My thoughts are with his family right now, and I do hope he can stabilise and find a way to move forward. It really does feel like an earth-shattering thing to happen... imagine being compared to Jimmy Saville, after police have said there's no current evidence of any crime? If the Beeb investigation (even without any illegal aspect) finds any wrong-doing, I hope the victims are supported and get the justice they deserve, too. Let's see what opening the flood gates brings out...

I'm very curious about the first young person, and the estranged relationship with their mother/step-father. For some reason, even with so little information, I'm side-eyeing the mother here. Something feels toxic. Hopefully we don't learn more so the young person can keep their anonymity in tact.

I wonder which other TV personalities out there are hiding that they are gay? It seems to be so incredibly damaging for some who have had to hide who they are... not only for their own mental health, but for innocent family and other individuals that get caught up in it along the way, too. It feels like it having to be a "dirty little secret" then becomes a self-fulfilling loop where successively darker aspects get folded into the mix over time.

Also... Obligatory duck The S*n.
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This is exactly how I feel. Ive never liked Schofield, going back years to the early days of Dancing on Ice with his stupid shouty voice and smug ‘I’m untouchable‘ expression, and his often quote blatant rudeness to guests on his shows. Both famous and not famous. He had a superior attitude and genuinely believed he was better than anyone else. There were so many stories of him being vile behind the scenes. The Schofield saga played out exactly like those of on his thread said he would, right down to the mental health crisis when exposed. The difference being Huw has a life history of mental health problems, Schofield just jumped on the bandwagon to try and manipulate public opinion. He’s a bleep. And yes The Sun is awful. We should all follow the city of Liverpool’s stance and boycott it IMO. Apparently people on Merseyside are better informed because they arent exposed to their drivel (shops don’t even stock it).
 
dickyticker said:
We've seen the mental health card played before and we know Huw Edwards had a history of depression. However that goes no way to excuse his behaviour, he is a married man in his 60's. Going on a gay dating app or Onlyfans throwing large amounts of money at photos of young arses a third of your age is just disrespectful, not illegal.

Also in such a high profile public role it was just plain stupid doing that, opening himself up to blackmail and ridicule. Actions do indeed have consequences and the one would say did they threat of exposure plunge him into a mental health episode rather than the realisation he was attracted to men or the shame he was paying money for arse photos.
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This. I mean, if he had done it with a different avatar and under a false name and didn't meet anyone face to face, noone would know. It's when these celebs/high profile TV people do things in their name/with their face that astonishes me, it's asking to be caught. Is it arrogance or complete complacency to act ill-advisedly with your well known name? His whole career is based upon his name/voice/face. He is the one who put it at risk.

It also pisses me off that people say it's homophobic to point out his behaviour. He has a wife and kids and a public facing role that pays 400,000 a year. The issue is is not that he apparently likes to message men. I'd be equally concerned of he was messaging girls/young ladies. It's the exchange of pictures for silly money, the massive age gap/power dynamics plus lying to his wife , etc, that comes across as despicable.

Again, if he had done this as an anonymous profile he'd never have been caught and we'd never know.

I am sorry if he's struggling mentally but we can't just go "oh well then he's excused". He's likely breached contractual behaviours etc anyway.

I wish him well and I hope he recovers, but let this be a lesson to other high profile figures that if you do questionable things like paying strangers 35000 and people find out, it will be of interest to people. Just like we found out about lockdown parties etc. Apparently it's okay to criticise and bash Boris and Cummings, but not okay to bash others.

I wish him a recovery and I wish his wife who will likely be trying so hard to protect him whilst being embarrassed and possibly blindsided by all this.
 
Ndrangheta said:
I heard a psychiatrist recently suggest that about 80 percent of people you regularly see on TV have a narcissistic personality disorder. Granted this was in the USA, but it kinda rings true and is quite disturbing given that they have a platform and can potentially influence viewers who don't know any better.
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I‘ve come to a similar conclusion recently. Almost to the point of thinking it’s a pre-requisite for seeking (& successfully getting) a career in the public eye.
 
ochebalboa said:
Owen Jones has leaped to his defence
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Of course he has. In Owen's world men do what they like and women must accommodate or be silenced.

I've got a modicum of sympathy for someone who has been so publicly humiliated and agree with @AdmirablePapaya s excellent post that there's no joy in seeing someone we thought was a solid, dependable figure turning out to have feet of clay. It increases the feeling that there is no one to be trusted in public life.

However none of that is to excuse what he has done and he now has to face the consequences of his own actions. As a public figure he would have known fine well that those consequences would be public too.
 
HE has a documented history of poor mental health. Who’s to say that the way he was living his life didn’t contribute to that? Forgetting for a minute his position and celebrity, and he’s an older man who sounds like a ‘sex pest’ in the workplace and should be sacked. Regardless of his mental health he should know better than to send unsolicited messages to presumably younger colleagues.

I don’t think we’ll ever find out if there was any illegality in what he did. But being outed will hopefully put a brake on his rather seedy behaviour. Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s being treated for sex addiction along with his MH. Poor impulse control is such a feature of sex addiction and it does sound like there’s a correlation here.
 
HOW DO WE KNOW IF THIS WAS FIRST TIME HES DONE IT ?

were only hearing about the last 3 years , there could be several teenagers hes bought images from - on several unregistered PAYG devices
he could have been doing this for years

but police did NOT get a search warrant - so will never know .....

and if the mother didnt speak up - nobody would know about this latest one


i think the mother should make a police complaint because they failed to investgate this
 
I don’t know if anyone remembers my post from about 5 threads back but my husband came back from our local village pub a couple of nights ago falling over himself with excitement to tell me it was definitely HE and the barmaids friend had met up with him a couple of times a couple of years ago. Friend is in his 20’s and gay. Barmaid had known about it for a while. Husband couldn’t be bothered to go back to the pub to get more info .

Anyway he went back last night - barmaid wasn’t on but ex landlord of friend was. Friend has just been evicted and has left a load of stuff (locks have been changed) landlord has found a number of “mini cameras” (husbands words) and is going to find out what’s on them 👀👀👀
 
It sickens me that people are going to his defence based on political ideology, if it was a Tory, Farage, GB News or anything deemed on the right who was the same these same people would be getting their pitchforks out and not caring about the mental health aspect

Of course Edwards mental health is an issue. But people see him as a national treasure and the Sun as the devil and this is the process we are in. If he did nothing criminal then morally he is a trashbag and i feel for his wife. He's career is finished anyway.
 
Piff paff puff said:
Another BBC pervert claiming mental health 🥴 so he can't be investigated for possible past sex crimes? Could be a whole load of other victims as another young man has come forward. Being depressed absolves you of all criminal activity then 🥴
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indeed - its likely he will have some protection under the mental health act - Police wont be allowed near him for a while .
 
squicker said:
I‘ve come to a similar conclusion recently. Almost to the point of thinking it’s a pre-requisite for seeking (& successfully getting) a career in the public eye.
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What you have to understand about talking-heads like Owen Jones is that they can't actually DO anything. They are only in the media as gobshites because they haven't got the social-skills to hold-down a regular 9-5 job, or become an entrepreneur, or undertake any form of worthwhile work frankly. They often stay in higher-education untill about the age of 24 and have only ever been surrounded by similar types of people, their worldview bears little or no resemblance to the average viewer of Morning Television. Thankfully television is going the way of the Dodo and people like Owen will disappear ... so that's something to be positive about! :LOL: Long live Tattle and Tattlers! (even if you don't agree with some of them).
 
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