Why would he announce that to the world? Trying to deflect criticism of himself by throwing it onto his wife? (In classic FR manner, I read only the excerpt)
Well they don’t really make all The facts here. But it seems like the falwell’s got involved in some kind of financial relationship with sky? And he later threatened to blackmail them. So he may only be coming forward because he realized the third party was going to expose him his family anyway
Possibly he has reason to believe that the wife is going to announce it anyway. Might as well get in front of it.