Suspended BBC presenter allegations are 'rubbish', claims teen in new statement

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The teenager at the centre of the BBC controversy has said nothing "inappropriate or unlawful" happened with the unnamed male presenter and that the allegations were “rubbish”.

In a letter from their lawyer, read out on today's BBC Six O'Clock news the teenager, now 20, said the claims, originally made by their mother, were not true.The letter stated: “For the avoidance of doubt, nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality and the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are ‘rubbish’.” The letter from the lawyer also said that the young person sent a denial to the newspaper on Friday evening via a WhatsApp message, in which they said the allegation was "totally wrong and there was no truth to it".The Sun had claimed a BBC presenter paid a teenager £35,000 in exchange for sexually explicit images.The teenager’s mother told The Sun she saw a picture of the presenter on her child’s phone “sitting on a sofa in his house in his underwear”.

The mother said she was told it was “a picture from some kind of video call” and looked like he was “getting ready for my child to perform for him”.The family were said to have complained to the BBC on May 19, but allegedly became frustrated that the star remained on air.The BBC has said it had been investigating a complaint since May, when it was first made aware, and that new allegations of a “different nature” were brought to it on Thursday.

As well as being in touch with the police, the corporation is carrying out its own inquiries and talking to the young person’s family.