Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has made a lot of the brand new Channel 5 collection depicting his demise.
Martin Clunes, 64, who’s greatest identified for his function because the titular character in Doc Martin, will play Edwards within the fifth drama Energy: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards.
The newsreader admitted accessing indecent photographs of youngsters as younger as seven and was given a six-month jail sentence in 2024, suspended for 2 years.
Edwards has now issued a press release to the Every day Mail expressing his ‘remorse and regret’ for his crimes and claiming the drama will ‘hardly convey the truth of what occurred’.
The publication provides that he’s “livid” concerning the upcoming drama.
The 64-year-old mentioned: ‘[They] made no try to confirm with me the reality of any side of their story earlier than continuing with manufacturing.
‘They requested for a remark too late after the drama was made whereas reserving the proper to edit such a remark. Additionally they declined to reveal whether or not these making allegations had been paid for his or her contributions.
‘Channel 5’s “factual drama” is unlikely to replicate the truth of what occurred.’
The assertion added: “My deep remorse and regret for the crimes I dedicated have been expressed in courtroom. By pleading responsible as rapidly as doable, I took full duty for my reprehensible actions.
‘I’m disgusted by the concept some folks get pleasure from indecent photographs of youngsters. Every picture represents an harmless sufferer. I sincerely and deeply apologize for what I did.”
Edwards mentioned he plans to inform his aspect of the story, including: “I’m doing my greatest to offer my very own account of those horrible occasions. It is a sluggish course of given the delicate state of my well being.
‘I’ve been open about my struggles with persistent psychological sickness for 25 years. What’s much less identified is the severity of this situation, which was efficiently managed till the downward spiral that led to a horrible consequence.
‘Psychological sickness is misunderstood by many, however can by no means be an excuse for crime.
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“Nevertheless, it might at the very least assist clarify why folks typically behave in surprising and reprehensible methods, and why issues fell aside for me the way in which they did.”
Channel 5 mentioned in a press release to Metro: ‘Energy: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards relies on intensive interviews with the sufferer, his household, the journalists who broke his story, textual content exchanges between the sufferer and Edwards, and courtroom reporting.
‘It has been produced in accordance with Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code. All allegations within the movie had been put to Huw Edwards via his attorneys six weeks earlier than broadcast.’
Chatting with Metro and different press at a screening of the drama, Clunes insisted we “do not know the total story” concerning the disgraced Edwards.
‘I discovered it a problem. The identify Huw Edwards alone tells a narrative. However I did not know the story till I learn it,” he mentioned.
Whereas questioning the viewers within the screening room, he mentioned, “Did anybody right here know the entire story earlier than you noticed it this afternoon? No, I do not assume anybody has finished that.’
He continued: ‘There was quite a lot of fuss round it. First they introduced it was a presenter, after which all these folks mentioned, “It isn’t me, it isn’t me.” After which there was the sympathy for Huw Edwards, till they found what was on his cellphone.
“I feel everybody may need misplaced curiosity at that time as a result of the next information had occurred. Donald Trump had finished one thing.”
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Edwards was one of many BBC’s highest-paid newsreaders, identified for presenting the BBC’s Information At Ten for many years, bringing a number of the greatest tales to the British public, together with the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II.
He pleaded responsible to creating indecent photographs of youngsters in July 2024.
Edwards’ downfall got here after a report from the Solar in July 2023 alleged {that a} ‘prime BBC star’ had paid a young person for sexual pictures.
Days later, his spouse named him because the presenter on the middle of the scandal. He was charged in June 2024 following a police investigation.
A month later, Edwards pleaded responsible to creating indecent photographs of youngsters and admitted having 41 pictures on WhatsApp, together with seven of essentially the most severe sort.
Energy: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards shall be broadcast on Tuesday, March 24 at 9 p.m. on 5.
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