No hiding place

Huw Edwards, in his series of mini-YouTube lessons on journalism for School Report, never got as far as 'jigsaw identification'.  It was getting easier everyday. First, agent Jonathan Shalit said the presenter didn't work in 'entertainment or sport'.  Then it was noted that Huw was dropped from the line-up of Thursday's One Show. His Instagram account was closed down, but on Twitter on Monday, Huw's account 'liked' supportive tweets from Jon Sopel and Adam Bienkov. Tim Davie was the first to mention 'employee' and 'member of staff'.  Huw famously among BBC high earners, has kept staff status throughout (despite his availability to present the Annual Concrete Building awards, etc). The BBC News team brought records of social media 'chats' between the presenter and one young man, which ended with indirect references to the Festival of Remembrance, presented by Huw in November 2018.  Two days ago Jon Sopel, a friendly rival for Huw at the BBC over the years, told us the still unnamed presenter was 'angry'. 

One hopes reputation lawyers Harbottle & Lewis didn't give Huw any real promises that this could end without the world knowing his name.