From controversies surrounding Huw Edwards and Strictly — to the Tubridy payments scandal closer to home — it has been tough times for state broadcasters on both sides of the Irish Sea
Huw Edwards leaves Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London after his sentencing on Monday. Photo: Lucy North/PA Wire
And RTÉ thought it had it bad. To say that it has been a tough summer at the BBC is putting it mildly. And all the scandals have occurred in its safest places. Star newsreader Huw Edwards, the BBC’s highest paid journalist, was arrested last November and sentenced in a magistrates’ court on Monday.
Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC’s biggest programme, returned as it celebrated its 20th anniversary at the weekend. It got through the whole opening show without mentioning the fact that two former Strictly stars have spent months getting lawyered up amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour in the rehearsal room — inappropriate behaviour which has been strongly denied. Can Strictly ever be the same?
