The wife of BBC newsreader Huw Edwards has revealed he is the star at the centre of a scandal involving sexually explicit images but has asked for privacy and said he is suffering from “serious mental health issues.”
Vicky Flind named the 61-year-old Welshman as the figure who was accused by The Sun of paying a teenager £35,000 over three years to pose for sexually explicit photos.
The Metropolitan Police has said Mr. Edwards did not appear to have committed any criminal offence as the young man was an adult at the time.
In her statement, Ms. Flind said her husband was “suffering from serious mental health issues” and was now “receiving in-patient hospital care where he will stay for the foreseeable future” and she asked for privacy for her five children….