Disgraced Huw Edwards plotting TV comeback by the end of the year

Huw Edwards is reportedly planning UK and US TV return, despite outcry from the mum of the teenager he groomed.

It was previously reported that he was in talks to do a televised interview with Channel 4, to tell ‘his side’ of the scandal.

Edwards, 64, was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for two years, in September 2024 after admitting to three counts of making indecent images of children.

He’s been out of the spotlight in Wales ever since it was revealed he had groomed a young man on social media and paid him thousands of pounds for explicit images.

According to the Daily Mail, the former BBC News at Ten host has been telling friends he ‘needs to get his story out there’.

The publication claims he’s working on a book as well as negotiating with multiple broadcasters, both in the UK and the US, about potential docuseries and interviews.

Edwards has reportedly taken issue with his portrayal in the press and in the Channel 5 drama Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards.

He’s said to be annoyed that the series, which featured Martin Clunes as the presenter, repeated the ‘lie’ that he had engaged with a minor.

‘The guy was 19 when he contacted me. I have his birth certificate and can prove it,’ Edwards reportedly told a friend.

‘I am deeply ashamed of my engagement with him – but he was a consenting adult. And he initiated the contact, not me. It soon turned to blackmail.’

However, the mum of the teenager has spoken out against Edwards’ potential return.

She told The Sun on Sunday: ‘It’s absolutely disgusting Channel 4 has given a convicted paedophile a platform. I don’t understand what he has to say — or what his side of the story really is.

‘Who wants to hear that? And why would they agree to it? Whatever he says, there’s no excuse for how he behaved.’

She asked ‘Haven’t we been through enough?’ in a final plea to the broadcaster to scrap any plans to work with the disgraced presenter.

Meanwhile, Edwards has been vocal about his dislike of the drama series based on his public downfall.

‘Much has been written and reported in the past week following Channel 5’s one-sided account,’ he wrote when it aired in March.

‘Other opportunities will arise later this year for me to state my case and to challenge the misleading or fabricated claims made in recent coverage.

‘A number of serious questions still remain to be answered, and not just by me. It will now take some time for me to produce my own account, and until then, I do not intend to comment any further.’

The former BBC presenter was charged with making indecent images of children aged 7 to 9 and pled guilty in court in July 2024.

Edwards joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984 and went on to become one of the corporation’s most prominent and highest-paid news anchors, having famously broken the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September 2022.

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