‘No one expects him back’: what now for the BBC’s Huw Edwards?
by Jim Waterson Media editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6ECZW)
Suspended presenter remains silent over partly withdrawn claims he paid a young person for explicit images but still faces internal inquiry
Last September, Huw Edwards sprinted out of a barbershop near his south London home after being summoned to the BBC's headquarters so he could announce Queen Elizabeth's death to the nation.
Now the BBC is weighing up whether it can ever reuse footage of Edwards's historic royal broadcast, with the presenter still suspended in the wake of the Sun's partly-retracted allegation that he paid a 17-year-old for explicit images.
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