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I loved the way the story came through on my phone in breaking alerts in less than five minutes.
1: Police are taking no action 2: Wife says it's my hubby Hew. 3: Wife says, he's needing unwell and in hospital.
So are his news reading days over?
Difficult to say. If the mucky photos the teenager was laid to send him took place after their 18th birthday, if the threatening messages he sent on social media weren't too sinister and if nothing else emerges now his name is well-known, he might be able to weather the storm and spin it as a redemption narrative then he might get a documentary out of it that'd clean his name up enough that he could be back behind the desk.
The police have concluded, finally, that nothing illegal took place.
So it's down to whether people are that bothered that he paid for mucky photos or said not nice things to someone online. I think the latter isn't even going to move the needle.. but the first, could potentially be career ending, depending on the actual details.
I think we'll have to wait and see how the new allegations shake out and it's likely his being named will make more people come forward.