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A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So they finally cought up to gordon the gopher huh?

About bloody time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is legal isn't it if the victim was 17? What is there to investigate?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Age of consent is 16 but I think both parties need be 18+ for sharing explicit selfies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Which is a pretty retarded law if you think about it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As with Philip Scholfield, there is such a disparity in age and power that it becomes very iffy. I'm not sure there's anything illegal going on but it's morally problematic.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The problem with "moral" problems is, who sets the morals? The church has been setting them for years, but they are now regarded as outdated and, to be frank, not a shining example of good "morality".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone who's a beeb star isn't presenting their radio show tomorrow.

Makes you wonder.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's Craig Charles, I'm going to be miffed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Smeggin' 'ell!

It was Rimmer, he made me do it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jeremy Vine only does weekdays right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He's already stated on twitter he's back on Monday. It's not him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't mind paying a licence fee if it goes towards Sir David etc. But you've got to question wages that allow 'tens of thousands' to be splashed (oo-er) in only three years.

And BBC wonder why people complain about them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait a minute.. David Attenborough is a household name 🙊 surely not!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Noooooooooooooo!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So there’s an injunction I’m guessing and now it’s the whodunnit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If there's an injunction against publishing the name that means that the story is already out in public, but apparently only the Sun have it? Hummm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They say its a "household name", surely we can work this out

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Barry Scott off of Cillit Bang always gave me wrong 'un vibes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, he gets rid of the dirt. He does not add to it. Can't be my man bazza

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it's not even his real name, how can we trust him

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't know his middle name! Definitely a wrong 'un.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy inside the Mr Blobby suit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is no-one in the suit - the BBC's best kept secret.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

tens of thousands of pounds? another meganonce at the bbc