International TV Co-Editor
Timeline of the Huw Edwards Scandal: "The BBC thinks they know BETTER than we do!"
Britain's new Culture Secretary will meet BBC Director General Tim Davie today to discuss the fallout from the Huw Edwards scandal.
With the BBC now in the grip of one crisis – Strictly Come Dancing – after another, with Edwards’ guilty plea yesterday morning, Lisa Nandy will delve deeper into what the BBC knew at the time, we understand, along with the £200,000 ($255,800) question – why did the BBC continue to pay Edwards after they found out he’d been arrested?
Following the former anchor newsreader’s shock admission to three charges of making indecent images of children, including the most serious, the BBC was finally forced to break its silence and admit that it knew Edwards had been arrested in November last year, yet continued to pay him for five months. He earned his biggest salary in five years last year and is said to have taken home around £200,000 during that five-month period, during which he didn’t work a single day.
