British detectives met with representatives of the BBC on Monday over allegations that a leading presenter paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos. But police said they had not opened a criminal investigation, and a lawyer for the young person denied anything inappropriate had happened.
The U.K.’s publicly funded national broadcaster has suspended the male star, who has not been named, over allegations he gave a youth 35,000 pounds starting in 2020 when the young person was 17.
In a further twist, a lawyer for the young person — who also has not been named — told the BBC that “nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality.” The lawyer said the allegations reported in The Sun were “rubbish.” The BBC has been scrambling to stem a growing crisis since the claims were first published by The Sun over the weekend. It said in a statement Sunday that it “first became aware of a complaint in May,” but that “new allegations were put to us on Thursday of a different nature.”
Several of the BBC’s best-known stars spoke up to say it wasn’t them and even threatened to take legal action against online accusers. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesman, Max Blain, said the allegations were “concerning,” but that the government had been “assured that the BBC is investigating this matter quickly.”
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