BBC Radio 2 host Jeremy Vine has suggested the unnamed BBC presenter at the centre of the sex pictures scandal should come forward publicly for the sake of his colleagues and the broadcaster as a whole.
The BBC said Sunday it had contacted the authorities and suspended a presenter following allegations that he had paid a teenager tens of thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos.
LONDON (Reuters) -Allegations that an unnamed BBC presenter paid a young person to pose for explicit photos are "rubbish", a lawyer acting for the young person has told the broadcaster in a letter. British media has been gripped in recent days by a report in the Sun newspaper that cited the young person's mother as saying the presenter paid the now 20-year-old 35,000 pounds ($44,828) for photos over three years beginning when they were 17. The presenter, who has not been named by the BBC or the Sun newspaper, was suspended on Sunday following the claims.