'Face of the BBC' resigns: Huw Edwards leaves BBC in 'inevitable' and 'momentous' move

Let's start with the latest news, of course, it has been confirmed that Hugh Edwards is leaving the BBC. He resigned on medical advice. A spokesman said Hugh Edwards resigned today and left the BBC. He has been off the air since July last year and the Sun newspaper reported that. had paid a young person for sexually explicit images, well this is of course a

momentous

moment because Hugh Edwards was the highest paid star of the BBC, he was the

face

of the BBC in many ways, he fronted their election coverage, he was the man to tell it.

In the world that Her Majesty the Queen had passed away, it will be difficult to imagine a great state occasion without him there, but it is easy to forget that nine months have passed, well, in fact, all those things that What I just said are the reasons which is why I think for some people of a particular generation he is so inextricably associated with the BBC that that is why this incident was such a huge problem, to put it lightly, a public relations problem. An optical problem for the BBC and Of course, it was recently reported that he had been living at home with his mother and was still being paid this extraordinarily high salary.

I think it was over £400,000 a year despite not being on air for several months, and there was a lot of backlash against that, so presumably his resignation, um, you know, maybe he's struggling with his mental health afterwards. of this and that is the reason why you live at home with your mother and maybe, um, you have chosen to resign, essentially, stay away from that type of bribery if you would continue to be paid that salary while the investigation is ongoing. I think the moment that that became public, that kind of um it was revealed that that amount of payment was still going to go into your your pay packet every month surely this moment became

inevitable

because from that moment on the idea, Of course, the BBC investigation has not completed its findings, although the Metropolitan Police found no criminality, so question marks have to be added to the mix.

It was also raised that the BBC had been dragging its feet on this investigation a bit, so, as I say, presumably he chose to resign because, um, for the bribe he publicly received for continuing to be paid well, there we go.