After the two had first connected on the dating app, the conversation moved to other platforms.
At this stage, the presenter revealed his identity and told the young person not to tell anyone.
Later, the young person alluded online to having contact with a BBC presenter, and implied they would name him at some point.
The presenter reacted by sending a number of threatening messages.
So they meet on a dating app, talk elsewhere at which point the presenter reveals their identity, they never meet but, later, the other person suggests online that they might reveal the presenter’s identity, so they get a rude message.
This doesn’t seem like a big deal, unless the threatening messages were really threatening.
And in the course of going public they’d be outing a middle aged man who is clearly not ready to be publicly out the closet.
Hang on, The name has not been released of the presenter so how does this second young person know it’s the same presenter or does this young person know the first?And why is the first young person saying nothing was wrong with the messages received and wants to drop it?Somethings not adding up here to me.I really need to fully read before scanning an article lol
At this point it’s either because: a) the presenter’s identity is pretty well known (some parts of the foreign press are running with it) or b) a number of people are contacting the BBC about shady behaviour from presenters and this just happens to be the same presenter so it is getting rolled up into the ongoing investigation.
The article says they do not know each other. BBC news likely knows the rumoured identity of the presenter so perhaps they made the link? It does seem weird to ‘confirm’ it’s the same presenter, now anyone who knows either person likely knows the name, only a matter of time before it’s leaked whether or not anything has wrong has been done.
How much more of its reputation can the BBC afford to lose over this? I wouldn’t be surprised if more of their top talent leave in the coming months for being dragged into this circus.
Like it or loathe it, the BBC is the UK’s most important broadcaster by a country mile.
If the BBC’s internal procedures are shown to be reasonable and to have been followed, which it appears so far to have been the case, then I don’t see anyone jumping ship about this.
People do dumb stuff all the time, some of which may or may not be illegal. It isn’t an employer’s responsibility until the employer finds out about it. What matters is the response and, so far at least, it appears the BBC has done fairly well this time, although perhaps more effort could have been made after the initial followups made by the BBC to the original complaint were ignored.
