ALISON BOSHOFF: Jealous Huw Edwards was 'poison' in BBC news room, claim ex-colleagues By Alison Boshoff for the Daily Mail Published: 19:54 EDT, 8 August 2024 | Updated: 19:57 EDT, 8 August 2024 e-mail View comments There is understandable shock in the BBC newsroom after former anchor Huw Edwards admitted child pornography charges in court last week. And now, with his career decisively over, some former colleagues are lifting the lid on what a 'tricky' colleague he was over his 40 years at the Corporation – long before the scandal broke. Last week Sir Craig Oliver, who was at the helm of BBC News at Six and Ten during Edwards' time, told The World At One: 'There were, I think, a number of people who were worried about his behaviour .
. . was he throwing his weight around and behaving well enough to staff?' This week I am told by a senior source that the truth is worse than Oliver admitted.
He said: 'Huw would spit poison about all the big names. He was very jealous and a divisive figure. Now you think: 'God, how dare he have behaved like this?' He was jealous and would bad-mouth all of the other presenters.
He was poison.' Highly-paid Huw Edwards (pictured in 2019) would complain bitterly in private about the pay cut he was forced to take in 2018, following a row over gender pay inequality. One issue which rankled was Huw's (left) belief that colleague Fiona Bruce (right) hugely outearned him – and that this was not reflected in the BBC Annual Report, the most recent of .