Disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards has damaged his silence.
Huw Edwards has written a livid assertion (Picture: Getty)
Former BBC reporter Huw Edwards has unleashed a scathing assault on Channel 5, which has made a drama about his very public downfall. The 2-part sequence starring Martin Clunes airs tomorrow (Tuesday, March 24). On the eve of its launch, the 64-year-old has blasted Wonderhood Studios, which is behind Energy: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, in a prolonged assertion obtained by the Day by day Mail.
Edwards started: “(They) made no try to examine with me the reality of any side of their narrative earlier than going forward with the manufacturing. They belatedly requested for a response after the drama had been made, whereas reserving the fitting to edit any such response. Additionally they refused to reveal whether or not any of these making allegations had been paid for his or her contributions. Channel 5’s ‘factual drama’ is hardly more likely to convey the fact of what occurred.”
The previous Information At 10 anchor additionally expressed regret for the crimes which led to his conviction as a part of the assertion.
He stated: “My deep remorse and regret for the crimes I dedicated have been expressed in court docket. In pleading responsible on the earliest alternative, I took full duty for my reprehensible actions.”
The Welsh journalist admitted three expenses of constructing indecent photos of youngsters and acquired a six-month suspended sentence in September 2024.
He was placed on the intercourse offenders’ register for seven years and ordered to finish a intercourse offender therapy programme.
Edwards wrote: “I’m repelled by the concept that some folks take pleasure in viewing indecent photos of youngsters. Each picture represents an harmless sufferer. I supply my honest and profound apologies for what I did.”
He additionally stated: “I’m making an effort to provide my very own account of those horrible occasions. It is a gradual course of given the delicate state of my well being.”
Addressing his ongoing battle with psychological sickness, which he claims he has struggled with for years, he wrote: “Psychological sickness is misunderstood by many, however can by no means be an excuse for criminality. It could possibly, nevertheless, no less than assist clarify why folks generally behave in surprising and reprehensible methods, and why issues fell aside for me in the way in which they did.”
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Clunes, who studied archive footage to seize Edwards away from his work persona, stated forward of the drama’s launch: “Clearly, the press and the media have centered on the fallen large man, Huw Edwards, which, after all, is a giant story. However behind that, there’s this lad and his household whose lives acquired turned the wrong way up and somewhat spoiled.”
Categorical.co.uk has contacted Channel 5 for additional remark.
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