Huw Edwards has split from his TV producer wife and moved out of the family home ahead of his court hearing over child pornography images, it was reported tonight.
Edwards, 62, is understood to have moved out of the couple’s home in Dulwich, south London, which he shared with Vicky Flind.
The former News at Ten presenter splits his time between his home in Wandsworth, south-west London, and his native Wales.
Edwards is due to appear in court in central London tomorrow after being charged with child pornography offences after 37 indecent images were allegedly shared in a WhatsApp chat.
He got engaged to Vicky in 1993 and the couple share three sons and two daughters.
Of their split, a source told The Sun: “They split a long time ago but haven’t announced it publicly.” The source added: “Huw has been living elsewhere for some time.”
Edwards is charged with three counts of making indecent images of children in relation to offences which allegedly took place between December 2020 and April 2022, Scotland Yard revealed yesterday.
A former colleague and friend told MailOnline: ‘Huw kept his arrest completely secret.
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They said that, like everyone else, they had seen the Metropolitan Police’s statement in July 2023 that detectives had found no evidence of criminal activity when the scandal broke and he was suspended from his post.
“It turns out he was arrested four months later and no one knew about it. I had no idea until he was charged,” the friend told the BBC.
Another former colleague of the star said: “It’s a disaster – and tragic for everyone involved.”
The BBC was also caught off guard by criminal charges against its former star presenter Huw Edwards, with bosses only being told about the allegations hours before they were made public, an inside source has claimed.
In April, Edwards resigned from the BBC on medical grounds and left without pay. He then moved in with his mother in Wales.
But it has emerged that Edwards was arrested on November 8 last year and charged just over a month ago, on June 26, after authorisation from the Crown Prosecution Service.
According to the Times, a source close to the BBC said the corporation only discovered that Edwards was facing criminal charges hours before it was made public.
Staff members were shocked by the news, which they said senior management was probably not aware of.
A senior source told The Times: “The BBC was informed by the Metropolitan Police when a call came in. [on Monday].’
