Huw Edwards is a Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader. He had a regular slot as the presenter on the News at Ten and was the journalist to break the news of the Queen's death live on TV.
The 61-year-old was born in Bridgend in 1961 and raised in Llanelli. He now lives in Dulwich, London with his wife, who he shares five children with.
Tonight, his wife Vicky Flind confirmed he was the BBC presenter who has been at the centre of allegations relating to sexually explicit images of a young person. She said her husband was “suffering from serious mental health issues” and was now “receiving in-patient hospital care where he will stay for the foreseeable future” as she asked for privacy for her family. You can read her full statement here.
The Metropolitan Police has said no criminal offence has been committed by Mr Edwards. You can get more story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
Who is Huw Edward's wife?
Huw is married to Vicky Flind, a TV producer who has previously worked on shows including This Week, Peston and Britain's Next Prime Minister. Vicky used to work for the BBC herself and was a long-standing editor of the BBC's The Week politics show. She left her role in 2016 and moved to rival ITV show Peston.
Huw has always kept his personal life fairly private, and it is not known when the two met and married. He did speak out in 2019 after his home was burgled. He said: "Just for the record - following some misleading (shock!) press reports. Yes, we had a burglary. No, I didn’t chase the burglar. The police are dealing with it. It happened a month ago. We’re all fine."
How many children do they have?
Huw and his wife have five children together, all are said to be of adult age. They have three sons, Dan, Sammy and Amos and two daughters, Hannah and Rebecca, HELLO reports.
He told WalesOnline in an interview in 2021 that his two eldest children have a "good level of understanding in Welsh but the others less so" as English is the main language they speak in their household as his wife is English. Talking about his children, he said: "Three of my sons are linguists actually and I've got a daughter who is a linguist. Their facility to speak, pronounce and understand, it's quite good but what you won't get is a fluent conversation which obviously I regret, but at least they are far more conversant than they otherwise would have been.
"They talk frequently to my mum who is back in Llanelli and they are very aware of the heritage of my dad and the fact he was such a big figure in Welsh language culture and are very proud of that. All his books are around the place."
He continued: "But you can't say to my kids, for example, who are supporting Wales in every sporting arena possible and are as Welsh positive as you can get, that they are not Welsh because they can't converse in Welsh, because that is totally wrong. Would I like my five kids to be Welsh speakers? Of course I would. How practical would that be? Not very because I'm rarely at home and my wife doesn't speak Welsh."
