Huw Edwards

[benjii]

I find his Welsh accent very soothing. 

I think there would definitely be such a thing as "too Welsh" for a newsreader but I've always found his voice to be very pleasant.

I have nothing further to add.

[CB Fry]

By some distance the best announcement of a British monarch's death on the BBC that I have ever seen.

[whelk]

Were the pictures of a girl front bottom or a boy thingy?

[badgerx16]

Just now, whelk said:

Were the pictures of a girl front bottom or a boy thingy?

Isn't it now referred to as a "bonus hole" ?

[benjii]

1 minute ago, whelk said:

Were the pictures of a girl front bottom or a boy thingy?

 

6 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

By some distance the best announcement of a British monarch's death on the BBC that I have ever seen.

Magnificent.

1 minute ago, whelk said:

Were the pictures of a girl front bottom or a boy thingy?

No idea what you're talking about.

[egg]

He's a splendid newsreader. Anyone know why he's not been on the telly the last couple of days? 

[swannymere]

I would imagine its because The Sun BITD published photos of Sam Fox and many others on their 16th birthdays (which meant the photos were taken before they're 16) and wanted to remind everyone of what double standards they have. 

[Jonnyboy]

This could be the end of The Sun. Thank fuck.

[whelk]

5 minutes ago, Jonnyboy said:

This could be the end of The Sun. Thank fuck.

Would be lovely. Readership ain’t the most morally driven though

[Ribtickler]

I met Huw at a service station on the M4, he was grabbing some rump steak from m&s.  
 

that’s all I will say on the matter 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Why would someone on his salary settle for rump steak? 

[ChrisPY]

12 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Why would someone on his salary settle for rump steak? 

Hopefully it was at least well aged.

[buctootim]

5 hours ago, ChrisPY said:

Hopefully it was at least well aged.

Not sure 30 days is enough to make it legal 

[whelk]

Blimey, a general thread about his qualities and now this announcement bombshell

[Farmer Saint]

Fuck - I thought it was Jennie Bond. Can't imagine anyone thought it was him. 

[whelk]

I actually feel a bit for him. The Sun are cunts who love ruining lives

[Farmer Saint]

14 minutes ago, whelk said:

I actually feel a bit for him. The Sun are cunts who love ruining lives

Well, luckily The Sun won't come out of this very well. 

Seems like he has suffered a mental episode from this, and as someone who has suffered previously I don't wish it on anybody. 

However, I think the more serious mental episode is the previous near-noncery (and this brings up the more serious discussion of whether paedophilia is a mental illness). 

Edited 12 July, 2023 by Farmer Saint

[cloggy saint]

The Met have said no offence has been committed and won't be investigating. Nothing to see here really, just a life ruined by the Sun.

[iansums]

After Schofield and now Edwards, is this the new trendy thing to follow, instead of getting a tattoo, get a young boyfriend? Seriously though, all very sad, I feel sorry for his family.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, whelk said:

I actually feel a bit for him. The Sun are cunts who love ruining lives

I agree. Jake Kanter, who has worked for Murdoch previously at The Times, was speaking about how insidious News UK is in amplifying this story across its many outlets (too many) and politicians within its grasp on Talk TV saying the BBC isn’t doing enough to deliver Murdoch’s agenda. 

Should have shut the doors after Milly Dowler disgrace. NOTW not enough of a price for me as The Sun was always just going to print seven days a week. Will be interesting to see what happens to his empire when he finally drops off his perch.

[cloggy saint]

2 minutes ago, iansums said:

After Schofield and now Edwards, is this the new trendy thing to follow, instead of getting a tattoo, get a young boyfriend? Seriously though, all very sad, I feel sorry for his family.

Is the young person involved in this 'case' male?

[revolution saint]

I'm glad the one person left in the UK who didn't know, now does.

[whelk]

 

[badgerx16]

21 minutes ago, revolution saint said:

I'm glad the one person left in the UK who didn't know, now does.

Apparently this afternoon's disclosure came a a "total shock" to people working in the BBC news room.

[egg]

40 minutes ago, cloggy saint said:

Is the young person involved in this 'case' male?

Victoria Derbyshire let slip on newsnight that it was. Male/female, what difference does it make though? The issue for me is the sun reporting 3rd party information as if it were fact, and without checking the facts with the apparent victim. All sorts of lives impacted by that rag of a paper. 

[Barsiem]

47 minutes ago, cloggy saint said:

The Met have said no offence has been committed and won't be investigating. Nothing to see here really, just a life ruined by the Sun.

Whilst I have no love for the Sun, Edwards has brought this on himself.  It's hardly a good look for a man who is in the public eye and paid a huge amount by license payers to be paying a girl who is young enough to be his granddaughter (and also allegedly a drug addict) for sex pictures.  Even before you factor in that he's married with kids. 

He's another person who thought they could get away with it.

[Wade Garrett]

BBC and his mates are portraying Edwards as a victim.  A new low.

[CSA96]

Would be an interesting precedent if every married man who was viewing/paying for legal, consenting adult porn behind his wife's back got publicly decried and hounded out of work 

Edited 12 July, 2023 by CSA96

[egg]

7 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

BBC and his mates are portraying Edwards as a victim.  A new low.

Is it? If he's done nothing legally wrong, the 'victim' says he ain't a victim, and Edwards has some kind of breakdown, is he not a victim of the sun's actions? 

[whelk]

10 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

BBC and his mates are portraying Edwards as a victim.  A new low.

Why aren’t you watching GB News?

[Lighthouse]

5 minutes ago, CSA96 said:

Would be an interesting precedent if every married man who was viewing/paying for legal, consenting adult porn behind his wife's back got publicly decried and hounded out of work 

I like to watch lesbian midgets in bondage gear, licking Angel Delight out of each others clevage. Just thought I'd get that out there now, so I'm immune to blackmail from the S*n.

[CSA96]

3 minutes ago, egg said:

Is it? If he's done nothing legally wrong, the 'victim' says he ain't a victim, and Edwards has some kind of breakdown, is he not a victim of the sun's actions? 

The fact The Sun had an on-the-record denial from 'the victim' and their legal team and totally omitted it from the article is astonishingly stupid/dangerous.

For the police to then take over the BBC investigation and rule that nothing unlawful occurred is.... pretty troubling for them.

Adult pays adult for amateur porn videos not really the story that the rag was trying to paint.

Edited 12 July, 2023 by CSA96

[egg]

Just now, CSA96 said:

The fact The Sun had an on-the-record denial from 'the victim' and their legal team and totally omitted it from the article is astonishingly stupid/dangerous.

Didn't realise that, and that compounds their conduct imo. Sure, Edwards behaviour seems morally wrong, but it should never have been put into the public domain when there was no victim as such. 

[revolution saint]

18 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

I like to watch lesbian midgets in bondage gear, licking Angel Delight out of each others clevage. Just thought I'd get that out there now, so I'm immune to blackmail from the S*n.

Rule 1

[cloggy saint]

1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

I like to watch lesbian midgets in bondage gear, licking Angel Delight out of each others clevage. Just thought I'd get that out there now, so I'm immune to blackmail from the S*n.

Can you send me a link?

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

I like to watch lesbian midgets in bondage gear, licking Angel Delight out of each others clevage. Just thought I'd get that out there now, so I'm immune to blackmail from the S*n.

i hope Steve Grant deals with the scandal of one of his mods being exposed as a perv better than the BBC does.

[badgerx16]

Allegations now emerging of inappropriate conduct in the news office'

"A BBC employee has told BBC News they received “suggestive” messages from Edwards that made them feel uncomfortable. BBC News has seen the messages, which refer to the staff member’s appearance and were sent this year."

"BBC Newsnight has also spoken to one current and one former BBC worker who said they’d received inappropriate messages from Edwards, some late at night and signed off with kisses. One said they felt it was an abuse of power by someone very senior in the organisation. Both workers who spoke to Newsnight, and the other employee, spoke of a reluctance among junior staff to complain to managers about the conduct of high-profile colleagues in case it adversely affected their careers."

[Plastic]

Guess my avatar is now topical.

[rallyboy]

Oh well, it kept Boris, his phone, his contempt of court, and his daughter, all out of the news for a while, and that was the aim.

I wonder what next important story will replace this when Huwgate dies down - Starmer tortures puppies? Illegals are pushing up our mortgage costs?

#deadcat

[badgerx16]

Malcolm Tucker in the 2007 "Thick of it" episode "Spinners and Losers";

 " The leader of the Nutters is a nutter! Jesus , my niece is funnier than that, she just makes jokes about poo! No, I don't think that they will run with it because it's libellous. It's just as libellous as the Huw Edwards rumor."

Edited 13 July, 2023 by badgerx16

[Raging Bull]

17 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

I like to watch lesbian midgets in bondage gear, licking Angel Delight out of each others clevage. Just thought I'd get that out there now, so I'm immune to blackmail from the S*n.

 

15 hours ago, Turkish said:

i hope Steve Grant deals with the scandal of one of his mods being exposed as a perv better than the BBC does.

It’s my understanding that Steve has seen the bank statements from lighthouse with payments from MLG… 

It would certainly explain his sudden absence from the saints web limelight!

 

BREAKING: @Matthew Le God was paying to watch him cook!!!

Edited 13 July, 2023 by Raging Bull

[rallyboy]

BBC are still running Who Do You Think You Are?

Perhaps they should consider a new format - something like What The Actual Fuck Do You Think You're Doing?!

[FarehamSaintJames]

On 10/07/2023 at 20:51, Jonnyboy said:

This could be the end of The Sun. Thank fuck.

Here’s hoping

[AlexLaw76]

Oh Huw, been a bit of a flirt, sleaze and general sex-pest by the sounds of it. Even the BBC were apparently investigating him.

 

[trousers]

On 12/07/2023 at 19:38, Lighthouse said:

I like to watch lesbian midgets in bondage gear, licking Angel Delight out of each others clevage. Just thought I'd get that out there now, so I'm immune to blackmail from the S*n.

Buttocks or bosom?

[the saint in winchester]

On 12/07/2023 at 18:24, cloggy saint said:

The Met have said no offence has been committed and won't be investigating. Nothing to see here really, just a life ruined by the Sun.

You don't think his ongoing payments to this previously 17 yo (now 20yo) male that continues to fund his drug habit, prompting his parents to speak up pleading for him to stop, bear any investigation? As long as it's not illegal, that's okay?

[Lord Duckhunter]

4 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Even the BBC were apparently investigating him.

 

Fucking sleeve bags, he’s done “nothing illegal”, they’re only doing it to deflect the public, fucking hope it’s the end of them. Despicable cockroaches. Hugh Grant needs to fucking sort them twats out pronto. Poor Huw is having his life ruined, and by his own employer. #standwithhuw

Edited 14 July, 2023 by Lord Duckhunter

[Weston Super Saint]

25 minutes ago, the saint in winchester said:

You don't think his ongoing payments to this previously 17 yo (now 20yo) male that continues to fund his drug habit, prompting his parents to speak up pleading for him to stop, bear any investigation? As long as it's not illegal, that's okay?

Investigation from whom?  The MET police have already stated that nothing illegal has happened so they won't be investigating.

Do you want his employer to investigate?  Is it really any of their concern what he does with his money after they've paid him?  Is it also up to them what happens to the money he gives to other people?  If so, should they be investigating Shell when he fills his car up?

The 'victim' (who has said they aren't a victim at all) is 20.  Their parents have no say in what they do with their lives so they can shout as much as they want about investigations, drug habits, wasted money etc etc, it makes fuck all difference.

[Fan The Flames]

24 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Investigation from whom?  The MET police have already stated that nothing illegal has happened so they won't be investigating.

Do you want his employer to investigate?  Is it really any of their concern what he does with his money after they've paid him?  Is it also up to them what happens to the money he gives to other people?  If so, should they be investigating Shell when he fills his car up?

The 'victim' (who has said they aren't a victim at all) is 20.  Their parents have no say in what they do with their lives so they can shout as much as they want about investigations, drug habits, wasted money etc etc, it makes fuck all difference.

The law isn't the only standard by which we judge things. Plenty of people are sacked for doing stuff that isn't against the law.

This isn't a comment on this case, just a general comment.

[cloggy saint]

57 minutes ago, the saint in winchester said:

You don't think his ongoing payments to this previously 17 yo (now 20yo) male that continues to fund his drug habit, prompting his parents to speak up pleading for him to stop, bear any investigation? As long as it's not illegal, that's okay?

Pretty much.