Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards, focuses on how a younger susceptible man, performed by Osian Morgan, got here into contact with one of the strongest figures in tv.
“Beyond the salacious curiosity around this story, I really thought there was another story worth telling, that of [Edwards’ victim] ‘Ryan’ and his family,” stated Clunes.
“Obviously the press and the media have focused on the fallen big man, Huw Edwards, which, of course, is a big story.
“But behind that, there’s this lad and his household whose lives obtained turned the wrong way up and fairly spoiled. I’m not on any social media and I had no concept that this type of factor went on, I actually did not.”
In July 2023, a national newspaper reported that “a prime BBC star” had paid a teenager for sexual images.
Days later, Edwards’ wife named him as the presenter at the centre of the scandal.
He resigned from the BBC in April and was charged in June 2024 following a Metropolitan Police investigation.
In September 2024, Edwards was sentenced to a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 2 years, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after pleading responsible to a few prices of making indecent photos of kids.
