UK Culture Secretary Could Meet BBC Boss Tim Davie As Early As Today To Pose Tricky Questions Over Huw Edwards Scandal
deadline.comThe UK’s new Culture Secretary will meet BBC Director General Tim Davie as early as today to discuss the fallout of the Huw Edwards scandal.
With the BBC veering from one crisis – Strictly Come Dancing – to another, with Edwards’ guilty plea yesterday morning, Lisa Nandy will drill into what the BBC knew when, we understand, along with the £200,000 ($255,800) question – why did the BBC continue paying Edwards after it found out he had been arrested?
Following the former chief news anchor’s shock guilty plea to three counts of making indecent images of children, including the most serious category, the BBC was finally forced into breaking its silence and acknowledging it was aware Edwards had been arrested last November, and yet continued to pay him for a further five months.
He earned his biggest pay packet for five years last year, and would have taken home around £200,000 during that five-month period, in which he did not work for a single day.
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