A second young person has come forward to complain about the unnamed BBC presenter who is facing allegations he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos.
The BBC reported that the second young person allegedly felt threatened by messages they received from the presenter, which the UK broadcaster says it has seen.
The person, who is in their early 20s according to the BBC, is said to have met the presenter on a dating app prior to their conversations moving onto other messaging platforms.
READ MORE: BBC presenter partied with bosses at lavish awards do after teen sex pic allegations were made
It is at this point that the broadcasting star then revealed his identity and asked the young person not to tell anyone, however, the young person then later posted online alluding to having had contact with a BBC presenter and hinting they might name him, the Mirror reports.
The presenter then sent a number of “threatening messages” to them in response to this.
The BBC has also confirmed that the messages sent came from a phone number which belongs to the presenter, adding that the young person felt “threatened” by the messages and “remain scared”.
BBC News has said that it has contacted the presenter via his lawyer, however, they have yet to receive a response in relation to the allegations.
It's understood the young person has no connection to the person at the centre of allegations published by The Sun.
During the weekend it was claimed that a top BBC presenter was taken off the air after it was reported he paid a teenager £35,000 (around €40,900) for explicit pictures.
The claim was made in an article run by The Sun, in which the mother of the alleged victim has claimed the money paid to their child was used to fund a drug addiction.
The mum of the recipient told The Sun: "I was shocked to see a picture of him sitting on a sofa in his house in his underwear.
"I immediately recognised him, he was leaning forward getting ready for my child to perform for him. My child told me, 'I have shown things' and this was a picture from some kind of video call."
However, on Monday the unnamed young person who is at the centre of the BBC controversy said "nothing inappropriate or unlawful" had taken place between them and the presenter in question.
In a letter reported by BBC News At Six, the lawyer of the young person's family 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'."
