Posted on 07/11/2023 11:09:28 AM PDT by RandFan
A young person has told BBC News they felt threatened by the BBC presenter at the centre of a row over payment for sexually explicit photos.
The individual in their early 20s was first contacted anonymously by the male presenter on a dating app.
They say they were put under pressure to meet up but never did.
When the young person hinted online they might name the presenter, they were sent abusive, expletive-filled messages.
Speaking to BBC News, the young person - who has no connection to the person at the centre of the Sun's story about payments for photos - said they had been scared by the power the presenter held.
They said the threats made in the messages - which have been seen and verified by BBC News - had frightened them, and they remain scared.
The new allegations of menacing and bullying behaviour by the high-profile presenter raise fresh questions about his conduct.
BBC News has contacted the presenter directly and via his lawyer but has received no response to the latest allegations.
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Yeah, well, people react strongly when you threaten and try to extort them.
“Presenter” is British for Talking Head?
Let me rephrase this pointless bit of “Journalism”:
Somebody says someone else may or may not have done something that scared them. Somebody’s lawyer and somebody else declined to respond.
So, you somehow know this was extortion and not just trying to get him to back off?
The BBC execs supported Jimmy Saville who was a child molester for decades while doing tv shows at the BBC. They knew all along. He died before he could be arrested.
The BBC execs still protect pedophiles as they refuse to release who the person is in the latest case.
According to the article it after the threat when the dude got abusive.
Early 20s ?
While I will admit that many in their early 20s are still quite childlike, an older person soliciting sex from someone of that age, while unseemly, is not exactly robbing the cradle...
Really curious who this presenter is.
Presenter usually refers to someone presenting the news. eg. Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, etc.
Really. What a pointless article. “Something might have happened to someone somewhere.”
Why would I want to read an article written by the BBC
About a Pervert BBC Broadcaster?
I’ll catch my news about this scandal elsewhere.
Right, but he had been dogging the teen to meet up and he/she didn't want to. The way I read it was that that was when he/she threatened to out him.
None of us know what happened. I only offer another theory.
That’s the whole purpose of a “dating” site I would assume. They had established enough of a relationship that he disclosed his identity after 1st contacting him anonymously.
Commies will commie.
No.
No more then you going to a bar means you should be assaulted because that is the whole purpose of going to bars.
Early 20s now doesn’t mean they were in their early 20s when they were contacted.
The other person that is involved in the photos is in their 20s now but apparently was 17 when it happened.
That isn’t the whole purpose of going to a bar. Asking someone to meet on a dating site is “assaulting” them in what universe?
Right. And then became bothersome when kid would not meet him.
OK, you're obviously married to your theory while I don't really care either way, so I'm out.
Carry on fellow Freeper.
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