Welsh newsreader Huw Edwards has revealed that when he told his bosses he had depression he was told by a colleague that "the BBC doesn’t really want people to think there’s a nutter reading the 10 o’clock news" in response. Huw, 60, has said he was met with “deep freeze silence” – and was stunned by a colleague’s explanation after speaking out about his struggles with his mental health, the Mirror reports.
Huw said: “One of my colleagues used a phrase which I can use because I was at the receiving end of it and it’s not meant to cause offence in any way. One of them said to me, ‘Well, you know, the BBC doesn’t really want people to think there’s a nutter reading the 10 o’clock news’.
“And I said, ‘What do you mean, a nutter?’ I said, ‘What kind of phrase is that?’ But that’s actually quite a good insight into the way some people still perceive these issues.”
