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Commissioners Behind Huw Edwards Drama Say They Have No Interest in Platforming His Alternative Version, Detail Significance of His Downfall: ‘He Was Incredibly Trusted by the Public'

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entertainmentMarch 24, 2026

Mar 24, 2026 3:51pm PT

Commissioners Behind Huw Edwards Drama Say They Have No Interest in Platforming His Alternative Version, Detail Significance of His Downfall: ‘He Was Incredibly Trusted by the Public’

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Courtesy of Channel 5

Two years ago, when news anchor Huw Edwards – one of the BBC’s highest paid and best known journalists – was convicted of making indecent images of children, some believed to be as young as 7, almost the entirety of the U.K. was stunned.

Edwards, who’d spent his entire career of almost 40 years at the broadcaster by the time of his arrest, had been one of the most reliable faces on television: the man who was trusted to tell the world Queen Elizabeth II had died in September 2022.

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