The wife of BBC newsreader Huw Edwards has named him as the BBC presenter facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit images. Following days of intense speculation as to the identity of the star, Vicky Flind said in a statement released to the PA news agency that she was speaking out on her husband’s behalf.
She said: “In light of the recent reporting regarding the ‘BBC presenter’ I am making this statement on behalf of my husband Huw Edwards, after what have been five extremely difficult days for our family. I am doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children.
“Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues. As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years. The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he’ll stay for the foreseeable future.”
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She said once the presenter, who has worked for the BBC for four decades, was well enough he “intends to respond to the stories that have been published” and added that her husband was first told there were allegations “being made against him last Thursday”.
Flind is a TV producer and current editor of ITV's politics show Peston and is also understood to be a governor at the prestigious Dulwich College. According to her IMDB profile, she has worked on Peston on Sunday and Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate as part of her current role.
She previously worked at the BBC like husband Huw. While at the corporation she was editor of the politics show The Week, leaving in 2016 to switch channels.
At the time of her departure from the BBC, she was quoted in The Times as saying: “It is very rare to have the opportunity to create a new TV programme. I was lucky enough to have that opportunity 13 years ago with This Week – which I’m delighted to say is still performing strongly.
“It will be very difficult to leave Andrew and the This Week family, but I’m greatly looking forward to building a brand new programme with Robert Peston and ITV. It’s a very exciting project.”
Edwards and Flind met when he was a BBC correspondent at Westminster. They share a home in Dulwich, south London and have five adult children together, Hannah, Amos, Sammy, Rebecca and Dan.
