Martin Clunes as Huw Edwards

I haven't watched it and have no intention to do so. It just seems wrong. 😔

The fact that many judge mental illnesses as “jumping on the bandwagon” makes me both angry and sad

Anniebach

Quote icanhandthemback Thu 26-Mar-26 09:56:10
Huw Edwards sounds just like my family member who blithely felt that he was a good person who had made a terrible mistake after a tragedy...which he caused by his earlier terrible mistakes! He can't understand why the whole family has cut him off but that is because he is a complete narcissist who has no real understanding of empathy.

Are you quoting HE or Clunes in the drama ?

HE issued a statement and now Tomes is apparently backing that up. I wasn't actually quoting either but I was referring to their public statements in that HE sounds like he is making excuses for his vile behaviour. Whether the drama happened as it was shown, HE was charged and convicted of keeping images of child abuse and making them so I don't believe he has any reason which can make me feel sympathy for him. He knows right from wrong and he was wrong.

Some of us on here, including me, have personal experience of mental health issues. It can of course manifest in different ways. The fact that this creep jumped straight on that bandwagon makes me angry.

Tomes also mentioned that Edwards is well within his rights to keep the £200.000 of taxpayer's money that the BBC paid out to him. Tomes said he would do the same thing in Edwards's shoes.
!!!

That money should have gone to the victims.

He really is manipulative.

HE pleasuring himself in front of his computer or Clunes in a fictional drama pleasuring himself in front of his computer?

TheSunRisesInTheEast

I'm incensed that mental illness is being used for excusing this monster's behaviour. You don't suddenly become a sexual predator and put another human being, who was obviously a very troubled lad, through such a disgusting and depraved experience. Thankfully, apart from the cringeworthy moment when Huw Edwards was pleasuring himself at his computer, we were spared the other details, but you can only imagine what that lad went through.

He had an unhappy home life, with a bully of a stepfather, and he was looking for kindness, love and affection. Unfortunately he got Huw Edwards who bullied him and abused him even further.

I can't imagine that anyone would want to hear his side of the sordid story. He needs to disappear from the public eye and keep his grubby excuses to himself. His wife was quick to divorce him, his children must be mortified by their shameful father, he should be thankful not to be locked up in prison, and just shut up 🤐.

A post that says it all.

I'm incensed that mental illness is being used for excusing this monster's behaviour. You don't suddenly become a sexual predator and put another human being, who was obviously a very troubled lad, through such a disgusting and depraved experience. Thankfully, apart from the cringeworthy moment when Huw Edwards was pleasuring himself at his computer, we were spared the other details, but you can only imagine what that lad went through.

He had an unhappy home life, with a bully of a stepfather, and he was looking for kindness, love and affection. Unfortunately he got Huw Edwards who bullied him and abused him even further.

I can't imagine that anyone would want to hear his side of the sordid story. He needs to disappear from the public eye and keep his grubby excuses to himself. His wife was quick to divorce him, his children must be mortified by their shameful father, he should be thankful not to be locked up in prison, and just shut up 🤐.

Quote icanhandthemback Thu 26-Mar-26 09:56:10
Huw Edwards sounds just like my family member who blithely felt that he was a good person who had made a terrible mistake after a tragedy...which he caused by his earlier terrible mistakes! He can't understand why the whole family has cut him off but that is because he is a complete narcissist who has no real understanding of empathy.

Are you quoting HE or Clunes in the drama ?

PamelaJ1

Did anyone watch the interview with Tomes (Huw E’s publicist) buy Suzanna and Ed balls? It’s on utube.

Annie seems like it!

Unfortunately yes I watched it.

The publicist appears to be more deranged and self centred than Hugh Edwards…

Huw Edwards sounds just like my family member who blithely felt that he was a good person who had made a terrible mistake after a tragedy...which he caused by his earlier terrible mistakes! He can't understand why the whole family has cut him off but that is because he is a complete narcissist who has no real understanding of empathy.

Did HE ask Tomes to represent him?

Did anyone watch the interview with Tomes (Huw E’s publicist) buy Suzanna and Ed balls? It’s on utube.

Annie seems like it!

Anniebach

Is mental illness always an excuse ?

It could be a reason.

Is mental illness always an excuse ?

It’s shameful that he’s going down the MH route as excuse for his depravity.

On another Thread, a Poster wondered what was the mind set of a predator.
I think Sarnia's post might help to explain.
A predator has no shame, takes no blame and feels themself to be wronged?

Revealed: Huw Edwards planning documentary to relaunch his career
After 18 months of silence, the disgraced newsreader is expected to use mental health in an attempt to salvage his reputation
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/24/how-huw-edwards-is-plotting-his-comeback/

Dickens

Pigma

Whatever our thoughts about the actual programme, if nothing else it will hopefully put an end to that deluded man’s belief that he could ever stage a ‘comeback’ - the arrogance of it!

Where did this information regarding a 'comeback' originate?

It seems so unlikely that anyone / company / organisation would want to be associated with him that it's hard to find this credible!

Barry Tomes, who is the publicist for Huw Edwards, was on Good Morning Britain yesterday.
He and Edwards had been discussing for around 9 months the likelihood of a TV programme where Edwards would explain why he had carried out those acts and also his mental health. Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards blindsided them and in Tomes's view did not address the reasons for the abuse.
Tomes said Edwards is still entitled to have his say as everyone should be able to tell their side of a story and Tomes wanted to concentrate on not what Edwards did but why and the part his mental health played in it all. Tomes also mentioned that Edwards is well within his rights to keep the £200.000 of taxpayer's money that the BBC paid out to him. Tomes said he would do the same thing in Edwards's shoes.
If anyone wants to catch the interview with Ed Balls and Susanna Reid from yesterday morning, being described as a car crash interview, it will likely be on You Tube.

Is it ever too soon to make the public aware of the extent of these atrocities Alira of course it isn’t but you misinterpreted my point I totally agree it needs shouting from the rooftops, everyone needs to be aware that this happens, from the highest to the lowest, no abuser should get off, and it’s never too soon to make the general public very aware of these atrocities, on news programmes and factual documentaries, but I do think it’s much too soon to make a play or film to entertain out of it and although I think Clunes played a good role but I think it was a mistake and I m probably in the minority.

It’s not about advertising the awful facts it’s about how they are advertised

So, so disturbing.

I hope that “Ryan” has found peace.

*put!

Allira

Well said, welbeck.

Is it ever too soon to make the public aware f the extent of these atrocities?
Martin Clunes was brave to take on this part imo.
He is such a versatile actor.

I agree completely.

Big strong messages need to go out that just because you’re well known and wealthy it doesn’t mean you can get away with despicable disgusting sexual abuse of children.

I felt very uncomfortable when I watched the drama about Saville.

The BBC certainly do need to out their house in order!

Luckygirl3

It sounds as though the parents went to the BBC and got short shrift which is why the stepfather wanted to go to the media.

It is not clear why they did not turn to the police, but the history of accusations against celebrities not being taken seriously is a concern that might have been in their minds.

If this drama does nothing else it serves to remind the authorities to keep an open mind when it comes to investigating high profile individuals.

The stepfather seemed pretty vile himself. Imagine being a teenager having to live with him.

Pigma

Dickens
Several reports in the press over recent months have said that he was hoping to make a comeback, including hiring a representative to assist with this. I read that he had had new promotional photographs taken although these were later removed from social media.

Thanks for that Pigma.

I'm astounded that he is seriously considering this. He's on the Sex Offenders register isn't he?

I do wonder just who would be prepared to take him, or promote him.

Maybe my thinking is behind-the-times, and I admit I haven't read extensively on this case. If he needs to earn money surely there must be 'back-office' jobs he could do - or even WFH?