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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ellie Harrison

Jeremy Vine forces Twitter user to pay out after claiming he was at centre of BBC scandal

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Jeremy Vine has received a libel pay-out from a Twitter user who wrongly claimed he was at the centre of the latest BBC scandal.

The BBC Radio 2 presenter’s name was one of several to trend on social media last weekend after The Sun published a story claiming that an unnamed BBC presenter had paid £35,000 to a young person, over a three-year period, in exchange for sexually explicit images.

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