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Difficult to say. If the mucky photos the teenager was laid to send him took place after their 18th birthday, if the threatening messages he sent on social media weren't too sinister and if nothing else emerges now his name is well-known, he might be able to weather the storm and spin it as a redemption narrative then he might get a documentary out of it that'd clean his name up enough that he could be back behind the desk.
From the live Guardian feed:
We'll have to see how that shakes out.
He resigned, didn't he?
No. It was reported that he had but that was retracted later on.
So far the police have said that nothing illegal has taken place. But I think he'll probably be too unwell and his reputation will be too harmed to do any work for some time
Plus like you say if there is anything else that hasn't come to light yet that might change things
Yeah, for now, the important thing is that he gets better and that the BBC box off their investigations swiftly (although with more people coming forward it could take a while).
My grandfather was gay at, being born into a time and place where he couldn't be himself, it took a toll on his mental health and it needed a crisis for him to finally get the help he needed. Hopefully, all of this means Huw Edwards can too.
If he's not acted illegally then what should he fear? His private life is his own.
Shame that the same witch-hunting standards aren't adopted by the press when it comes to our former PM. Is that 9 children or as many as 14? (It's ok though because Boris is a red hot-blooded "man's man").
It kind of depends on the details. Also with a well-paid and high-profile figure like himself there may be a disrepute clause in his contract and, while he may not have acted illegally, the BBC may well decide that they have been muddied by their association with him.
I feel there are many sticks to beat BoJo with and his sexual shenanigans isn't one of the largest and weightiest of them.
How about we beat him with the "Where the fuck is your phone?" stick?
That'll do for starters - the "You lied about Brexit, you chancer!" stick is large enough to kill him, so save it for later.
If that happens, then give it a year and he'll take up Jon Snow's position as head anchor of Channel 4 News. Not sure if Krishnan Guru-Murthy ever got Un-suspended for his on air comments, I'm a bit out of the loop.
Or there's always Sky or c5...
Oh quite possibly, unless these complaints from inside the BBC stick. He may be a nightmare to work with and I imagine most channels won't take the risk.
Yeah, he may get turfed out then, like Clarkson did. Funny thing is I don't think Amazon prime video have a news outfit at the moment. Maybe a times radio online-exclusive podcast. That would be unfortunate. I'm forseeing a real 'rise and fall of' situation here.
And like Clarkson, if someone thinks there's money to be made, there'll be chequebooks opening as long as he's not done anything too heinous. That said, Clarkson had made himself a marketable brand while Huw Edwards is just another old white guy reading of an autocue, admittedly one with a mellifluous voice. He just seems more replaceable, possibly with someone younger who might add a bit of diversity to the line-up.
I think silver-haired white guy has been on-brand for professional autocue readers though. That is changing a little bit, but I think it's the majority - at least until the grandfathered contracts run out (the likes of Huw, Eamonn Holmes etc) and the Beeb, Sky and ITV diversify. I don't watch too much rolling news but I think the BBC at least are already doing this with their news output.
The police have concluded, finally, that nothing illegal took place.
So it's down to whether people are that bothered that he paid for mucky photos or said not nice things to someone online. I think the latter isn't even going to move the needle.. but the first, could potentially be career ending, depending on the actual details.
I think we'll have to wait and see how the new allegations shake out and it's likely his being named will make more people come forward.