Nicky Campbell, a BBC radio announcer, has hinted at the instability gripping the broadcaster in the wake of claims against an anonymous male presenter.
An unidentified BBC personality has just been accused of paying a teenager more than £35,000 for pornographic images taken when the victim was 17 years old.
It has now been revealed that the broadcaster allegedly ‘broke Covid lockdown regulations’ in order to see another individual, aged 23, after the two met on a dating website and the presenter urged them for over two months to meet in person.
Since the claims were made public, Campbell, 62, as well as Jeremy Vine, Gary Lineker, and Rylan Clark, have all openly denied being the presenter in question, while many others have discussed the ongoing story on numerous platforms.
As the incident gained national attention over the weekend, Campbell found himself on the receiving end of trolling and decided to notify the police as he “made a stance.”
He returned to his radio programme on Monday and has continued to cover the issue as new allegations surface – but not all listeners are pleased.
During Wednesday’s Radio 5 Live programme, Campbell read out an early message sent in by a listener, which read: ‘For goodness’ sake, Nicky Campbell this is the third morning running that you’re discussing the presenter, enough!!!
‘The world is falling apart, yet you want to discuss again a situation we almost know nothing about, hence just fuelling speculation, find something else to talk about.’
Replying to the angry listener, Campbell said ‘Might I mention, we have our MPs panel coming up,’ adding that topics including Boris Johnson’s phone messages would be addressed.
The day’s primary argument, however, centred on whether or not it is the public’s business to know who the presenter is.
He went on: ‘A lot of people think that this dichotomy between the public interest and what is of interest to the public is terribly important when it comes to our law.’
‘I do maintain it’s an important debate to have,’ Campbell later said, adding: ‘It’s a conversation well worth having.’
During the discussion, one caller rung in to apologise for the ‘distressing’ weekend Campbell had faced, while another said: ‘My point is it’s very boring, it’s very tedious, and nobody knows anybody but everybody is running around like headless chickens.’
Campbell replied: ‘Well it doesn’t do headless chickens justice what’s going on in this building.’
His remark on the BBC’s turmoil comes after Campbell mentioned how ‘distressing’ his weekend had been.
‘Obviously thoughts with the alleged victim and family,’ he stated on Monday’s radio broadcast.
‘So a bit of perspective here, worse things happen at sea as they say, but it was a distressing weekend, I can’t deny it, for me and others falsely named.’
He continued: ‘Today I am having further conversations with the police in terms of malicious communication and with lawyers in terms of defamation.’
Following his admission, a caller said she was “very outraged” that Campbell and other television stars had to come forward and clean their identities.
Campbell responded: ‘I’m all good, Jeremy and also others involved as well, Rylan and also Gary, yeah it’s uncomfortable but as I said earlier worse things happen at sea.
‘We’re big boys.’
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