Presenter photo claims are clear crisis for BBC

The BBC is coming nether increasing unit aft 1 of its apical presenters was accused of paying a teen for sexually explicit photographs, opening erstwhile they were 17.

The allegations, first reported by the Sun, are that the unnamed prima paid tens of thousands of pounds to the young idiosyncratic implicit 3 years.

As the prima faces superior questions astir their conduct, truthful does the organisation itself.

This is simply a precise wide situation for the BBC. There are already accusations that since May, erstwhile it's claimed the household archetypal complained, it hadn't handled the probe into the unnamed presenter properly.

Who carried it out? How did they effort and interaction the household who complained?

What steps did they instrumentality to question the presenter and to analyse further?

Who successful the BBC knew astir the accusations?

Now we inactive don't cognize whether the presenter has oregon hasn't been formally suspended. The BBC property bureau won't archer us. All we cognize is that helium won't beryllium connected aerial successful the adjacent future.

If the BBC don't sanction him is that just to the different BBC presenters who person recovered themselves successful the mediate of a societal media frenzy being wrongly and unfairly accused?

The BBC enactment retired a connection defending its effect to the ailment connected Friday evening, but since past determination has been thing new.

But BBC News programmes and its website, and astir Sunday newspapers, are starring connected this story. So that doesn't look similar a strategy that tin hold.

The unit volition beryllium connected the BBC to amusement they are taking action.

MPs are present scrutinising and suggesting the effect hasn't been handled properly. So the governmental vigor is connected and volition lone increase.

For the Director General Tim Davie, this represents different high-profile situation to grapple with this twelvemonth alone.

In March, helium was embroiled successful an impartiality enactment with Gary Lineker and successful April, Richard Sharp resigned arsenic BBC president aft a study into his assignment recovered helium had "failed to disclose imaginable perceived conflicts of interest", including his engagement successful the facilitation of an £800,000 indebtedness for then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Now successful July, Mr Davie has to get a grip connected different ungraded that has the imaginable to severely dent the Corporation's reputation.