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Huw Edwards: How the U.K.’s Top News Anchor Went From BBC Superstardom to Facing Prison
As the BBC's best known and highest paid anchor, Huw Edwards was the face of the news. Now he's pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children.
The man who was once the BBC ’s highest paid news anchor, earning a salary almost on par with the corporation’s director general Tim Davie, cut a pathetic, solitary figure behind the glass panels of the dock. Edwards had reached the pinnacle of his profession, effectively becoming the U.K.’s version of veteran U.S. broadcaster Walter Cronkite, who was once voted “the most trusted man in America.” It was a career-defining moment that, whenever his own time eventually came, would surely be recorded as the first line in his obituary. Clad in a dark suit and crisp white shirt not entirely dissimilar to the somber outfit he wore while delivering the news of the Queen’s death two years earlier, Edwards was escorted through the baying crowd by police officers and into the courthouse.
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