Huw Edwards’s life from breaking news of Queen’s death to marriage and children

Huw Edwards, who has contiguous arrived successful tribunal for sentencing, was a tv broadcaster astatine the BBC for astir 40 years.

The 62-year-old was arrested successful November past year and has pleaded blameworthy to the making of indecent images of children.

But earlier quality of his crimes broke, Edwards was 1 of the salient faces of BBC News, reporting connected large royal family events and important governmental moments.

Away from his TV career, helium has been married to woman Vicky Flind for 30 years, and the mates person 5 children together.

Let’s instrumentality a look backmost at Edwards’s vocation and beingness off-camera…

Welsh roots

Edwards, whose archetypal connection is Welsh, graduated from the University College of Cardiff with a first-class honours grade successful French.

His archetypal media occupation came astatine Swansea Sound, wherever helium worked arsenic a section newsman successful 1983. A twelvemonth aboriginal helium recovered his location astatine BBC, wherever he’d enactment for the adjacent 4 decades of his career.

Edwards stayed firmly successful interaction with his roots and wrote a thesis on Welsh Nonconformist chapels for a PhD degree.

He besides fronted a humanities documentary series, The Story of Wales, for BBC Wales.

Primetime TV and BBC News

Edwards joined the broadcaster arsenic a quality trainee, earlier progressing to Parliamentary Correspondent for BBC Wales. During the 12 years successful this role, helium reported connected Margaret Thatcher’s resignation and the emergence of Tony Blair.

In 1999, helium took implicit arsenic the host of the BBC Six O’Clock News, which became the most-watched programme successful Britain.

He was erstwhile again promoted successful 2003 to beryllium the anchor connected the BBC Ten O’Clock News.

Royal household coverage

When large royal events are taking place, it was often Edwards who led the sum connected the BBC. He played a important relation successful Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, and the enactment went connected to triumph a Bafta for Best Coverage of a Live Event.

Edwards was besides astatine the forefront of the sum of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, arsenic good arsenic the Diamond and Platinum Jubilees.

Breaking the quality of the Queen’s decease to the federation connected BBC One besides fell to Edwards. He aboriginal wrote connected Instagram: ‘My enactment is simply a privilege (Thank you for each your messages)’.

Following the monarch’s passing successful September, helium led sum connected the days pursuing including the funeral.

Talking astir holding it unneurotic during the 10 days of broadcasting that followed the Queen’s death, Edwards revealed to Good Housekeeping: ‘I ate a batch of bananas and I drank a batch of tea!

‘It’s comic due to the fact that you deliberation you’ve prepared yourself for The Queen passing away, but the world of it was rather overwhelming.’

He continued: ‘I kept saying to myself, “Is this truly happening?” When it was each over, I went location and I sat successful the plot connected my ain with a cupful of beverage and a Welsh cake.’

More recently, Edwards covered King Charles’ coronation successful May 2023.

Marriage and children

Edwards is joined to TV producer Vicky Flind, and the mates person 5 children unneurotic – 3 sons, Dan, Sammy, and Amos, and 2 daughters, Hannah and Rebecca. The household lives successful London.

Flind erstwhile besides worked for the BBC arsenic exertion of The Week Politics show, earlier moving rival ITV amusement Peston successful 2016.

Following the 2023 scandal, erstwhile The Sun claimed that Edwards had paid thousands of pounds to a young idiosyncratic for sexually explicit images, Vicky Flind released a statement connected his behalf.

She asked for privateness and revealed that Edwards had been ‘suffering from superior intelligence wellness issues’.

However, it was reported successful April this twelvemonth that Edwards and Flind person since split, aft 30 years together.

A root told The Sun: ‘They separated rather a agelong clip agone but person not announced it publicly.

‘Huw has been surviving elsewhere for a while.’

The mates has not yet said publically whether they volition beryllium divorcing.

Mental wellness issues

Edwards has described suffering from slump connected and disconnected passim his adulthood.

‘I’m beauteous wide that I person suffered – and bash endure – from depression,’ helium antecedently told Men’s Health.

These intelligence wellness issues person near him incapable to get retired of furniture astatine times.

‘At slightest I present cognize erstwhile I’m going to participate a signifier similar that. Your caput goes into a spot wherever you don’t privation to bash anything. You can’t marque immoderate decisions.’

After Edwards was named arsenic the BBC presenter astatine the centre of the 2023 scandal, Flind revealed that her hubby was receiving in-patient infirmary attraction for superior intelligence wellness issues.

Meanwhile, Edwards’ defence lawyer said the erstwhile presenter had been suffering from ‘physical and intelligence wellness issues’ astatine the plea proceeding successful July.

Huw Edwards’ salary

The broadcaster was erstwhile earning £550,000 – £599,999, but it was reduced voluntarily after sex wage differences were evened out.

By 2018, it went down to £520,000 – £529,999, earlier erstwhile again lowering to £410,000-£414,999 successful 2021.

Edwards was paid betwixt £475,000 and £479,999 from 2023 to 2024, contempt resigning successful April this year.

At the time, the BBC defended his summation successful salary.

However, successful August the BBC asked Edwards to repay his salary aft helium pleaded blameworthy to having indecent images of children.

This nonfiction was archetypal published connected July 12, 2023.

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