The BBC presenter facing allegations he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos sent 'threatening' messages to another young person in their early 20s, the broadcaster has reported.
The individual, who is in their early 20s, said they were first contacted anonymously by the unnamed male presenter on a dating app, BBC News reports.
He then revealed his identity and asked the young person not to tell anyone, according to the BBC. The young person later posted online alluding to having had contact with the presenter and hinted they might name him, the report claims.
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He then allegedly sent a number of 'threatening messages', which the BBC says it has seen and confirmed came from a phone number belonging to the presenter.
Speaking to BBC News, the young person - who reportedly has no connection to the person at the centre of The Sun's story about payments for photos - claimed they were scared by the power the presenter held. They said the threats made in the messages had frightened them - and they remain scared.
The fresh allegations add further pressure for the BBC as it deals with the fallout from separate claims made against the unnamed male presenter and first reported by The Sun newspaper at the weekend.
BBC News said it had contacted the presenter via his lawyer, but had received no response to the allegations.
Claims about the unnamed BBC presenter first surfaced in The Sun newspaper on Friday. The paper reported that the presenter had paid a young person around £35,000 over three years, from the age of 17, for explicit images.
A lawyer representing the young person has since claimed the allegations were 'rubbish'.
In a letter reported by BBC News At Six, the lawyer said: “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 legal representative also said the young person told The Sun on Friday evening before the newspaper published the story that there was “no truth to it”, the BBC reported.
The lawyer reportedly called the article on the front page “inappropriate”, claiming in the letter that the mother and the young person are estranged.
