Huw Edwards: The fall from grace of one of TV’s most recognisable faces

The 63-year-old was the BBC’s highest-paid newsreader and introduced the Information At Ten for many years earlier than he pleaded responsible to creating indecent pictures of kids in late July.

Edwards was considered the best-known face of BBC Information and was seen as a protected pair of arms to information the nation by means of main occasions together with the late Queen’s dying, which he introduced to the nation in September 2022.

The disgraced newsreader has been making headlines this summer time after he admitted to having 41 indecent pictures on WhatsApp, together with seven of essentially the most critical kind.

Edwards was spared jail and the decide at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom stated it could not be “an exaggeration” to say his “long-earned repute is in tatters.”

He had earned a repute as a revered veteran broadcaster earlier than he resigned from the company in April following a furore amid allegations, separate to the costs he later confronted, about making funds to a teen for sexually express pictures.

The newsreader was entrance and centre in stay broadcasts of election protection, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and Platinum Jubilee in 2022, the marriage of the then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2018, and the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh in 2021.

Edwards was additionally the BBC’s voice at Trooping the Color and the Pageant of Remembrance.

When the BBC was in search of somebody to take over election protection from the long-serving David Dimbleby in 2019, it was Edwards who was chosen.

Edwards was additionally the company’s highest-paid newsreader, with a pay bracket of £475,000 to £479,999 for the yr 2023/24, earlier than he resigned, in keeping with the BBC’s newest annual report.

This final wage marked a rise from 2022/23, when he was paid between £435,000 and £439,999 for 180 days presenting on BBC One, in addition to information specials.

In 2018, it was reported that he had agreed to take a pay lower following revelations over unequal pay for women and men on the BBC.

Edwards stated in 2021 that he was contemplating his future presenting Information At Ten as he approached his sixtieth birthday.

The broadcaster, who attended Llanelli Grammar Faculty and graduated in French from Cardiff College, was an honorary professor within the Faculty of Journalism, Media and Tradition at his outdated college earlier than he resigned from each his honorary professor title and honorary fellowship following his responsible plea.

In June 2023, Edwards picked up the most effective stay occasion honour on the Tric Awards for being amongst these to cowl the state funeral of the late Queen, and in February he obtained the Broadcast Awards’ particular recognition award.

In 2012 the BBC received a TV Bafta for Edwards’ protection of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s marriage ceremony and the Welsh newsreader has additionally received the most effective on-screen presenter prize on the Bafta Cymru awards quite a few instances over time.

Edwards was beforehand vp of the Nationwide Church buildings Belief and has appeared on Songs Of Reward.

He has additionally made documentaries for the BBC together with Wales: Who Do We Assume We Are? and talked about his melancholy on S4C’s Huw Edwards Is 60.

In a documentary in 2021, Edwards revealed he has had bouts of melancholy during the last 20 years which have left him “bedridden”.

“Like everybody that suffers with melancholy, you don’t get one bout of it. It comes and goes,” he stated.

“For me, it began round 2002 I feel. I went down pretty rapidly and I couldn’t perceive it.”

Talking on a podcast hosted by Jane Garvey and Fi Glover, Fortuitously… With Fi And Jane, he stated he determined to share publicly that he has melancholy as he felt it was “full hypocrisy” to help organisations such because the Shawmind Basis or Thoughts with out explaining why.