A fourth person has made allegations that the BBC star at the centre of the sex picture scandal sent them ‘creepy’ messages on Instagram. The alleged message exchange took place when the young person was 17-years-old and is said to have been started by the unnamed presenter.
In the alleged messages, the BBC presenter appears to message the teen, who follows the top star, with a love heart emoji before the teen asks about his job role. The young person claimed the now-suspended BBC presenter messaged them when they were still in school, the Mirror reports.
In an interview with The Sun, they claimed: "Looking back now it does seem creepy because he was messaging me when I was still at school. In light of everything now, I feel shocked because as a broadcaster it is a name everyone would trust.
"I had no reason to think it was anything beyond that at that time."
The reports claim the first message from the household name was sent to the teenager in October 2018, with the young person first following the BBC star months earlier
"I was surprised he had messaged me out of the blue but was excited as I knew who he was," the young person claimed. "He sent a love heart emoji to me and I was taken aback. Looking back now at my reply I can tell I did not think anything of it because of my age."
The then-teenager is now aged 22 and has a successful job but claims they enjoyed intermittent conversation with the presenter on Instagram sporadically after their first contact. They claimed to ask the presenter whether they should take part in a "BBC school scheme" which the suspended star encouraged them to do.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Vine has called on the BBC presenter at the centre of allegations to come forward after it was claimed the suspended star paid a young person £35,000 for sexually explicit images to go public.
The allegations against the top male presenter, who has been suspended and not been named, were made by the young person's family, with the young person's lawyer subsequently denying the claims.
Jeremy tweeted: "I'm starting to think the BBC Presenter involved in the scandal should now come forward publicly. These new allegations will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues of his.
"And the BBC, which I'm sure he loves, is on its knees with this. But it is his decision and his alone."
The broadcaster previously took to Twitter to deny he was the BBC presenter at the centre of the allegations after the claims were published by The Sun.
He wrote: "Just to say I'm very much looking forward to hosting my radio show on Monday - whoever the 'BBC Presenter' in the news is, I have the same message for you as Rylan did earlier: it certainly ain't me."
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