Former news anchor Huw Edwards has been absent from screens since July 2023 and quit the BBC earlier this year.
Jeremy Clarkson has waded in on the conversation surrounding former BBC news anchor Huw Edwards and his £40k salary increase, despite not being on television screens since last summer.
Huw resigned from the BBC after 40 years in April and his final ever broadcast took place on July 5 2023 during a report in Edinburgh.
He recently plead guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children.
The 62-year old was one of the BBC’s highest-paid presenters and was recently revealed to have earned between £475,000 and £479,999 in the 2023-24 financial year.
BBC’s Director General Tim Davie has now been slammed by Jeremy Clarkson, who called for Edwards to pay back the hefty sum. He wrote in his column in The Sun that it can be paid back with “a fine.”
Jeremt penned: “There seems to be some discussion about how we can get our hands on the £200,000 of our money that was paid to Huw Edwards by the BBC after his arrest last year.
“According to Tim Davie, the Director-General of the Beeb, it’s fraught with difficulties. But is it? Why not have a quiet word with the judge who sentences Edwards and suggests that, in addition to whatever punishment he has in mind, a fine might be in order?
“A fine of ooh, let’s think – £200,000?”
The BBC confirmed that Edwards was not paid off as part of his departure. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has also urged for Edwards to return his salary after pleading guilty.
She said: “I think he ought to return his salary.
“I think having been arrested on such serious charges all the way back in November, to continue to receive that salary all the way through until he resigned is wrong and it’s not a good use of taxpayers’ money.
“I think most people in the country will agree with that but whether he does that or not is up to him.”
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Source: Tampa Bay Times
