After expressing his wish for the unknown male broadcaster to come forward, Jeremy Vine called the ongoing BBC situation “awful.”
Allegations surfaced last week that an unknown broadcaster paid a minor for pornographic photographs.
The BBC has suspended a male employee after The Sun claimed that he reportedly paid a young person about £35,000 for pornographic pictures over three years, beginning at the age of 17.
Before heading to his radio show on Wednesday, TV personality Vine said: ‘It’s just terrible, I just think this thing has got to stop.
‘I think I’ve said enough to be honest, but I never ever want to go through this again.
‘And we’re all waiting, we’re all just waiting for it to play itself out.’
On his Channel 5 programme, Vine discussed the incident and why he feels the BBC star should come forward, comparing the present scenario to Phillip Schofield‘s previous public drama.
He said: ‘There’s a bit of a question mark over this story.’ he then ran through the story and all the current claims against the BBC star.
‘There could be four separate people involved. We’re not sure it was criminal, but it certainly looks like it was right for The Sun to run the story,’ explained Jeremy from his standpoint.
He then justified his tweet: ‘I thought very carefully before I sent the Tweet.
‘I know the individual. I am concerned about his state of mind. I haven’t spoken to them, but I have heard he wants to play it long. He is angry. He wants to remain anonymous.’
‘It’s his decision, but he needs to come forward,’ he shared.
According to reports, a second young person reported to the BBC that they got ‘threatening texts’ from the anonymous broadcaster after chatting on a dating app.
This comes after the suspended male presenter was recently accused of paying a separate young individual more than £35,000 for sexually explicit pictures when they were 17 years old.
The lawyer for the young man, who is now 20, called the allegations “rubbish.”
However, the individual’s parents stressed that they stood by their allegations, which had been published in The Sun.
On Saturday, July 8, Vine tweeted that “whoever the “BBC Presenter” in the news is,” it “definitely” wasn’t him, following the likes of Gary Lineker and Rylan Clark in dismissing any speculation that they were the presenter in issue.
Source My Celebrity Life.
