BBC presenter accused over express pictures ‘stripped to underpants throughout video name with youth’
A “household name” BBC presenter accused of paying a young person for express pictures is dealing with recent allegations that he stripped to his underpants throughout a video name with the youth.
The younger individual’s mom stated she was “shocked” after her offspring confirmed her a screenshot of the video chat, during which the unnamed star was sitting in his boxer shorts on a settee at his dwelling.
She informed The Sun that the person seemed to be “leaning forward, getting ready for my child to perform for him.”
“My child told me, ‘I have shown things’ and this was a picture from some kind of video call,” she added.
The newspaper didn’t say when the alleged incident occurred.
The mom additionally alleged that earlier this 12 months she was shocked after overhearing the presenter “on the phone saying to my child: ‘I told you not to f***ing ring me’.”
It comes after The Sun beforehand claimed that the well-known presenter had paid a total of more than £35,000 to the youth in return for “sexual pictures”.
The man is claimed to have first requested pictures when {the teenager} was 17 again in 2020, and has made a sequence of funds since then.
No one concerned has been named, however The Sun stated the presenter has not been suspended and is believed to nonetheless being paid his six-figure wage in full.
It stated the household made a grievance on 19 May however got here ahead to the media after changing into annoyed that the person was nonetheless on air a month later.
The mom stated her offspring informed her that they had additionally acquired a cost of £1,000 in June over PayPal which urged that the “BBC hadn’t spoken to this man” within the weeks after the preliminary grievance.
Going public ‘the one solution to cease it’
The presenter is now off-air and the BBC has reportedly launched an investigation, though the company has not confirmed this.
The youth, who’s now aged 20, used the cash to fund a crack cocaine behavior which “destroyed” their life, the mom has additionally claimed.
She informed the newspaper: “If it goes on then my child is going to wind up dead. Putting this out to the public is the only way to stop it.”
The claims have prompted frenzied hypothesis on social media over the identification of the presenter and led to a string of BBC stars, together with Jeremy Vine and Gary Lineker, to public communicate out to disclaim they’re the thriller determine.
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Earlier on the BBC’s News at Ten programme, the broadcaster’s particular correspondent Lucy Manning described the state of affairs as “very serious for the BBC” and warned it might “severely dent the BBC’s reputation”.
She added: “The understanding is the presenter isn’t due on air in the near future, but we haven’t been told – and we have asked…. whether there has or hasn’t been a formal suspension.
“The BBC might want to reply if the investigation ought to have occurred sooner, if it ought to have been extra thorough, and if it is honest to different presenters, unconnected to this, that their names are actually kind of within the headlines.”
A BBC spokesperson said: “We deal with any allegations very severely and we’ve got processes in place to proactively cope with them.
“As part of that, if we receive information that requires further investigation or examination we will take steps to do this. That includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of the situation.”
They added: “If we get no reply to our attempts or receive no further contact that can limit our ability to progress things but it does not mean our enquiries stop.
“If, at any level, new data involves mild or is offered – together with through newspapers – this shall be acted upon appropriately, in step with inner processes.”