Huw Edwards took home his biggest pay packet since 2019 during his final year at the BBC , despite the newsreader being off-air for eight months amid a misconduct scandal. The BBC’s annual report revealed that Edwards was paid as much as £480,000 ($620,000) in the 12 months to the end of March 2024, his highest salary since 2019, when he pocketed up to £495,000. Edwards signed a new BBC deal early last year and presented coverage of King Charles III’s Coronation, which will explain why his pay rose around £40,000 compared with the £440,000 he took home in 2023.
Related Stories Legal Tim Westwood: Publication Of BBC Probe Into Former DJ Delayed Again Due To Ongoing Police Investigation Sports The 2024 Paris Olympics: How Networks, Agents & Content Makers Want To Supercharge The Biggest Show On TV For A New Generation At the peak of his powers, however, he was embroiled in a misconduct storm after allegedly paying a young person for indecent images and sending colleagues inappropriate messages. Edwards was signed off work in July 2023 with mental health issues and resigned from the BBC in April citing medical reasons. He has not commented on the allegations against him.
Speaking to media on Tuesday, Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, suggested that it was “appropriate” that the corporation continued to pay Edwards during his period of medical leave. The BBC’s annual report showed that Edwards was the corporation’s highest-paid news anchor. Only Match of th.