Logan Paul accuses the BBC of 'platforming predators for the past 50 years' as he explains why he sent a lookalike to replace him in 'interview' amid scamming accusations

Logan Paul has accused the BBC of 'platforming predators for the past 50 years' aft a fake interrogation betwixt the YouTuber-turned-wrestler and the corp went south.

A BBC newsman stormed retired of the scheduled interview aft a lookalike arrived successful spot of Paul for inclusion successful a caller documentary, with the prima facing accusations of misleading followers implicit crypto investments by promoting coins without disclosing his ain fiscal interests.

According to the BBC, Paul promoted crypto investments to his followers without disclosing his ain fiscal interests successful them, which would person caused prices successful the investments to soar. He has denied immoderate wrongdoing.

The broadcaster besides claimed that aft the part-time boxer posted connected societal media astir crypto coin successful 2021, an anonymous crypto wallet - which stores keys for cryptocurrency transactions and let its owners to negociate their funds - connected to his nationalist wallet traded and went connected to marque a nett of $120,000 (£95,000).

A BBC documentary, titled Logan Paul: Bad Influence, saw newsman Matt Shea question to interrogation the societal media personality over the allegations.

But erstwhile helium arrived astatine the venue, helium was met by a lookalike, yet clocking on, and Paul has present taken purpose astatine the organisation successful a video shared to his 23.6million subscribers connected YouTube.

Paul could beryllium seen branding Shea a 'dumb a**' aboriginal connected successful the video arsenic helium watched connected backstage.

Paul besides highlighted however Shea was erstwhile told helium could interrogation Andrew Tate if helium delivered a container of chocolates, to which the newsman said helium would. Paul added that his dignity was 'out the window' pursuing the agreement.

An archetypal portion connected Tate by Shea was 'ripped isolated for unverified and one-sided allegations that is close on-brand for an organisation arsenic credible arsenic the BBC and Vice,' according to Paul.

He went onto suggest that the BBC person 'been platforming predators for the past 50 years,' saying helium had 'a list' which included Jimmy Saville, Chris Denning, Chris Langham, Jonathan King and Rolf Harris.

Paul added that Shea 'reports for organisations with proven, known past of intersexual misconduct'.

He added: 'I wonderment what Matt knows. I'm not saying anything.'

Later successful the video, helium explained however the BBC had go funny successful his enactment due to the fact that they couldn't 'stop hiring class A intersexual predators' and wanted to marque a 'regurgitated deed portion connected a wrestler' to 'divert attention'.

Paul added that helium maintains helium 'did not scam anyone' and 'made zero dollars disconnected the crypto zoo allegations'.

He went onto explicate that the lookalike arrived a time aboriginal to hole for questions, and Paul could beryllium seen suggesting: 'Do you lone enactment for intersexual predators?' and: 'Did Huw Edwards ever interaction your pee pee?'

As Paul prepared backstage, helium said that Shea had been sitting successful his spot for 5 minutes and that helium had 'never seen anyone truthful tense successful my life'.

When the fake Logan Paul, existent sanction Rodney Petersen, had sat down, the archetypal question enactment guardant by Shea surrounded Paul's fame and responsibility, to which Petersen responded: 'I'm 205lbs and I consciousness similar the s***, this is an astonishing life.'

The interrogation continued, with Shea looking tense arsenic the fake Logan pointed retired his notes. Shea past appeared to get upwind that helium was not speaking to the existent Logan, asking: 'Why bash you look to antithetic to me?'

He past appeared to talk to a producer, asking: 'Jamie, is it conscionable me, oregon does helium look different?' with the response: 'Completely different.'

With the existent Logan laughing backstage, Shea, looking glum, asked: 'Is Logan coming?'

'Jamie' past said: 'You're f***ing joking, right? Is this a joke?' 

The fake Paul continued to assertion helium was a 'serious person' earlier Shea astatine past realised helium was making nary advancement and sad: 'Let's conscionable get retired of here, I'm not doing this.'

Before helium could move, though, Paul opened a doorway and said 'Go, go, go' and told his lookalike done the earpiece that helium was 'sending them in'.

Groups of radical past stormed the set, shouting 'BBC is vile, they prosecute pedophiles.'

Carrying cards connected sticks, they besides said: 'Neiner, neiner, neiner, halt touching kid wiener.'

Petersen past grabbed a microphone himself and asked Shea wherefore his idiosyncratic email relationship is allegedly 'registered to PornHub', to which Shea responded by getting retired of his spot and leaving with a smirk connected his face.

'That's what upset him the most,' Paul said.

As Shea and his unit left, the radical headed to the extortion of the gathering to proceed chanting, and Paul stuck a representation of Shea and Edwards unneurotic - seemingly fake - to the apical of the reporter's car.

Shea past ripped it disconnected and kicked it connected the floor, with Paul saying that they 'couldn't permission accelerated enough'.

The video ended with a circular of applause for the lookalike and Paul and Petersen shaking hands. Paul added that helium donated $50,000 (£39,700) to 'a children's organsiation that focuses connected children suffering and who are being abused, thing that we person not seen the BBC bash yet adjacent though they person been platforming the worst radical connected the satellite for the past 50 years'.

The BBC claims that Paul's squad 'insisted' they alert to the Caribbean land done Storm Ernesto earlier the incidents took place.

'So alternatively than support himself against the allegations we've been investigating, Logan decided to troll us,' Shea said via voiceover successful his ain documentary.

'Minutes aft leaving the gym, we person a missive from lawyers connected behalf of Logan Paul, informing america against publishing our allegations.

'But these allegations against him aren't going away. In fact, they've been gathering since 2021.'

The BBC besides assertion that successful 2021, the YouTuber shared a societal media station astir a peculiar crypto coin, and that 'an anonymous crypto wallet with adjacent connections to his nationalist wallet had traded successful the coin'. It's claimed that anonymous wallet made $121,000 (£92,000) successful profit.

Paul is presently facing a multi-million-dollar suit implicit failed crypto task CryptoZoo amid accusations of fraud. 

The influencer launched the task successful 2021 lone to beryllium met with contention a twelvemonth aboriginal erstwhile YouTube channel Coffeezilla produced a three-part docuseries accusing Paul and his institution of scamming users. 

The crippled was expected to let users to bargain basal ovum NFTs that would ticker and turn into carnal NFTs, which could past beryllium breadstuff with different NFTs.

In bid to marque $ZOO tokens, the game's currency, users would request to hatch eggs. 

Unfortunately the crippled did not enactment arsenic intended, and aboriginal became the taxable of the class-action lawsuit.

Paul, who has denied defrauding anyone, has pointed the digit astatine the game's makers. 

But contempt his insistence that he's not astatine fault, helium has offered a $2.3million (£1.8m) buyback programme aimed astatine settling the issue.

'I'm going to instrumentality attraction of the radical who made maine look similar this was a scam perpetrated by me,' Paul said. 'I didn't marque immoderate f***ing money, bro. I mislaid fractional a cardinal dollars connected this.'

Paul's squad offered nary remark erstwhile approached by DailyMail.com. The BBC were besides approached for comment.