London, Thanasis Gavos

In the third place of higher paid presenters and its journalists BBC was uploaded last year Hugh Edwardsdespite being suspended from July 2023 due to his involvement in the indecent photos of a minor for payment scandal.

Edwards was paid around £475,000 for 2023/24, almost £400,000 more than the previous year.

Long a key presenter of the BBC’s main news and major information programmes, the 62-year-old resigned from the organization in April, nine months after his name was embroiled in the scandal.

According to the latest pay figures for the financial year 2023/24 published by the major British news agency, in first class of the highest paid TV stars was again the Gary Lineker.

The former England international, who has for years presented the BBC’s flagship football program Match of the Day, earned an annual gross salary of around £1.35m, the same as in the previous two years.

At second place she was the popular presenter of Radio 2’s morning music and entertainment show Zoe Ballwhich had an equivalent salary of around £950,000 – a drop of around £30,000 on the previous year.

Who is Hugh Edwards

The Welsh journalist, who had been described as “the face of the BBC”, was accused in July last year of paying a 17-year-old person thousands of pounds to send him indecent photographs over three years, starting in 2020.

In February, BBC management apologized to the man’s family for its handling of the case, as it was admitted the parents’ complaint was not adequately investigated by the organization over a period of several weeks.

After his name was released and despite the police ruling that no criminal act had been established, Hugh Edwards was hospitalized with psychological problems.