Jeremy Vine ‘fearful’ about BBC presenter’s ‘mind-set’

Jeremy Vine has stated he’s “worried about the state of mind” of the presenter on the centre of the BBC scandal. 

Speaking on his Channel 5 present, Vine – who additionally hosts a day present on BBC Radio 2 – stated: “It’s his choice however he wants to return ahead now, I feel.

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“I know his survival instinct has kicked in and I know he saw what happened to Phillip Schofield, but my God look at the damage to the BBC, look at the damage to his friends, to those falsely accused – and the longer he leaves it the worse it will be for him.”

Vine stated he thought “very carefully” earlier than posting a tweet on Tuesday night time urging the unnamed presenter to disclose himself, including: “I do know the person involved. I’m very fearful about his mind-set and what that is doing to him.

“I haven’t spoken to him but I gather from somebody who has that he is described as angry and keen to play it long.

“Now to me that implies that he needs to be nameless for so long as potential hoping that he can someday stroll again into the constructing.”

But Vine stated the presenter will be unable to “remain anonymous forever” whereas persevering with to work for the broadcaster and urged he “will have to answer” the allegations towards him.

“Now, he must have a defence, he must have one. Maybe he’s going to say it’s all a misunderstanding? Well, I assume it,” Vine stated.

Vine additionally stated his spouse fearful for his security when going to a Bruce Springsteen live performance on the weekend after a frenzy of false accusations towards a number of BBC presenters on social media.

“I had a situation: I was going to see Bruce Springsteen at the weekend and my wife said, ‘are you going to be safe there?’

“That’s how serious this thing is, and she gave me a baseball cap and said ‘you better wear this’,” he stated.

The unnamed presenter was suspended over the weekend after The Sun claimed he had paid tens of 1000’s of kilos to a teen in trade for sexually express images.

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On Tuesday additional allegations emerged involving the presenter, who allegedly despatched threatening messages to a different younger individual of their early 20s, who has no connection to The Sun’s accuser, the BBC reported.

A 3rd individual, aged 23, then alleged the presenter defied COVID guidelines to fulfill them throughout a nationwide lockdown in February 2021, The Sun claimed.

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Separately, The Sun has additionally printed messages that had been allegedly despatched to a 17-year-old after a dialog was initiated on Instagram in October 2018.

The paper stated the messages contained love coronary heart emojis and kisses.

The individual, now 22, was quoted as saying: “Looking back now it does seem creepy because he was messaging me when I was still at school.”