The BBC presenter accused of paying a teenager more than £35,000 for sexually explicit images ‘stripped to his underpants’ in a video call with them, their mother has claimed.
She told how she saw him in his underwear, ‘leaning forward, getting ready for my child to perform for him’.
The presenter, who has not been named, has reportedly been taken off air pending an investigation, but he is said to be known to millions of people.
The teen’s mother told the Sun: ‘I loved watching him on TV. So I was shocked to see a picture of him sitting on a sofa in his house in his underwear.
‘I immediately recognised him. He was leaning forward getting ready for my child to perform for him. My child told me, “I have shown things” and this was a picture from some kind of video call.’
Several major BBC stars have been quick to confirm they are not the man behind the scandal.
Rylan, Jeremy Vine and Gary Lineker have all denied they are involved.
It follows the revelation yesterday that the unnamed presenter had been allegedly paying the teen, who is now 20, for explicit photographs for three years.
The distraught mother told how their child was using the money, which was said to have been deposited in their bank account in hundreds or even thousands at a time, to fund their ‘spiralling’ crack cocaine addiction.
This is a breaking news story and is being updated.
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