Piers Morgan brands Huw Edwards a ‘stand up guy’ after ‘very serious situation’-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Piers Morgan has branded Huw Edwards a ‘stand up guy’ after it emerged the BBC star was named as the suspended presenter at the centre of allegations.

On Wednesday evening, after days of claims emerging, Edwards’ wife  Vicky Flind released a statement on his behalf, revealing that he was the presenter who was claimed to have paid a young person more than £35,000 for sexually explicit images, among other allegations.

In her statement, Flind said that her husband was ‘suffering from serious mental health issues’ and ‘is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he’ll stay for the foreseeable future’.

The likes of Dan Walker, Jon Sopel and Alistair Campbell have since spoken out and expressed their concern for Edwards, while Morgan also addressed the situation on his TalkTV programme.

He began: ‘Huw Edwards, the face of British news, the face of BBC News, has now been named as the presenter at the centre of this huge scandal that has been raging the last week.’

Morgan continued: ‘He’s authoritative and above all, he’s always been trusted. By all accounts, the audiences love him.

‘I know him personally, he’s always been a very stand up guy.

On Wednesday it emerged Huw Edwards was named as the suspended presenter at the centre of allegations (Picture: BBC)

‘But today’s news that he is the presenter behind the BBC’s sex picture scandal is a huge shock to everyone who knows him, maybe to his family, certainly to millions of people who are used to watching him on the news each night, probably a shock to his colleagues at the BBC.’

Addressing the fact that Jeremy Vine, Gary Lineker and Rylan Clark were amongst those speaking out to deny any involvement in the scandal as rumours circulated, the former Good Morning Britain host went on: ‘The speculation was becoming completely unsustainable.

‘Many other BBC presenters were being shamed and vilified on social media, for something they had nothing to do with and had to in some cases publicly deny their involvement.

‘Viewers would have noticed Huw had vanished overnight from the nightly news bulletins.

‘I know him personally, he’s always been a very stand up guy.’ (Picture: REUTERS)

‘Clearly Huw Edwards is now in a very serious situation. He probably feels like he’s losing everything.

‘Whatever the outcome of the investigation, it would be inhuman not to think about the impact of all this on him, on his family, on his mental health, all of those are important things to consider now.’

Morgan had earlier claimed that the scandal plaguing the BBC had ‘put another nail in the coffin of our trust’ in the broadcaster.

On Monday’s Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV, the host of the TV show delivered his view on the state of the situation at the time

‘It seems a warped sense of priorities here and it’s causing a lot of unrest amid other BBC staff,’ the 58-year-old said.

‘It seems to be a failure, wrapped up in a fiasco inside a farce against the backdrop of the scandal of Philip Schofield at ITV, which rocked British television and the country, frankly, the hesitation looks even more unforgivable.

He continued: ‘And whatever the truth about these allegations, and we do need to get to the truth very quickly, BBC leaders have managed to put another nail In the coffin of our trust in the BBC.’

Piers Morgan Uncensored airs weeknights at 8pm on TalkTV.

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