Susanna Reid brands Jeremy Vine's demand that BBC star name themselves 'strange'
Susanna Reid has hit out at Jeremy Vine to blast the star for pressuring the mystery BBC colleague to identify themselves amid the ongoing sex photo scandal that is engulfing the corporation.
The 52-year-old ITV star was left unsettled when 58-year-old Jeremy took to Twitter on Tuesday to propose that the BBC presenter identify themselves in order to protect other presenters from being wrongfully accused and to help repair the reputation of the BBC itself.
Jeremy found himself wrongfully accused of being the star at the centre of the sex photo scandal after The Sun broke the news last week - and was forced to deny he was the mystery star over the weekend.
As fresh allegations emerged about the star on Tuesday, he then tweeted: “I’m starting to think the BBC Presenter involved in the scandal should now come forward publicly. These new allegations will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues of his. And the BBC, which I’m sure he loves, is on its knees with this.
“But it is his decision and his alone.”
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The BBC has been engulfed by accusations of inappropriateness by one of their top stars (Getty Images/iStockphoto)But Susanna has questioned Jeremy’s motives, saying during her Wednesday Good Morning Britain broadcast: "Other names of course have been put around on social media, there’s threats of legal action.
"And now we have a very high-profile presenter, Jeremy Vine, putting pressure on the unnamed presenter to come forward, which I think is a strange move for another presenter."
Susanna continued: "But it reflects the fact that there are other people who feel they are unwittingly caught up in this."
Rylan Clark and Gary Lineker are two other BBC presenters who felt compelled to step forward last weekend to clarify that they are not the star at the centre of the scandal.
But it’s not just Susanna Reid who has hit out at Jeremy’s appeal to the BBC star to unmask themselves.
Former BBC presenter Richard Bacon has also slammed the Jeremy Vine Show host for making this suggestion, warning the mystery BBC presenter could be dealing with all manner of mental health struggles.
Richard, 47, warned in a tweet of his own to Jeremy: “Stop it.
“You’re more emotionally intelligent than this. We don’t know the complexities of what his family are going through. Or what dark thoughts are running through his head.
“Irrespective of what he’s done wrong. You can walk off people wrongly guessing it’s you for 5 minutes.”
But former Good Morning Britain star Piers Morgan has added his voice to the growing chorus of people demanding the BBC presenter unmask themselves.
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He said on his show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, on Tuesday night: “I don’t know if the presenter’s broken any laws. I do know his name. There are very good legal and ethical reasons why I’m not saying it, like everybody else.
“But it’s only a matter of time before he loses agency in this situation and somebody blurts it out in parliament or on a less responsible network.”
He said: “For the good of his colleagues, the BBC, and himself and his reputation, it is surely time for that presenter to reveal his own identity and vow to clear his name and defend himself if that is what he can do.”
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