The former newsreader plead guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children earlier this week.
The BBC have removed an episode of Doctor Who from iPlayer, which featured former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards, following his guilty plea at Westminster magistrates’ on Wednesday morning.
Edwards featured as himself in an episode titled ‘Fear Her’, broadcast in 2006 as part of David Tennant’s debut series as the Tenth Doctor.
In the episode, the TARDIS lands in 2012 with the Doctor planning to show Rose the London Olympics. On a nearby housing estate, a desperate mother is hiding her daughter’s unearthly powers.
The episode was removed from iPlayer earlier today.
The BBC have not yet commented on the move or confirmed whether it plans to re-upload the episode with edits.
Edwards was arrested last November and charged last month. The offences related to 37 images that were shared on a WhatsApp chat, according to the Metropolitan Police.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between 2020 and 2022.
Edwards was charged with having six category A images, the most serious classification of indecent images, on a phone. He is also accused of having 12 category B pictures and 19 category C photographs.
The Met said the allegations are separate from claims which were widely reported and investigated last year.
“These allegations did not form part of the matter which was considered by police in July 2023. They were investigated separately as a standalone case,” a police spokesperson said.
In the annual publishing of the corporation’s salary report last week, it was revealed Edwards was the third-highest earner between April 2023 to March 2024.
During this period he brought home between £475,000 and £479,999, only being topped by Gary Lineker and Zoe Ball.
He quit the BBC in April this year.
A BBC spokesperson said earlier this week regarding Huw Edwards: “The BBC is shocked to hear the details which have emerged in court today. There can be no place for such abhorrent behaviour and our thoughts are with all those affected.
“The police have confirmed that the charges are not connected to the original complaint raised with the BBC in the summer of 2023, nevertheless in the interests of transparency we think it important to set out some points about events of the last year.
“In November 2023, whilst Mr Edwards was suspended, the BBC as his employer at the time was made aware in confidence that he had been arrested on suspicion of serious offences and released on bail whilst the police continued their investigation. At the time, no charges had been brought against Mr Edwards and the BBC had also been made aware of significant risk to his health.
“Today we have learnt of the conclusion of the police process in the details as presented to the court. If at any point during the period Mr Edwards was employed by the BBC he had been charged, the BBC had determined it would act immediately to dismiss him. In the end, at the point of charge he was no longer an employee of the BBC.”
