{"id":2334747,"date":"2026-03-18T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2334747"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:32:58","slug":"martin-clunes-on-playing-disgraced-news-anchor-huw-edwards-we-watched-him-every-night-he-sort-of-seeped-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/martin-clunes-on-playing-disgraced-news-anchor-huw-edwards-we-watched-him-every-night-he-sort-of-seeped-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Clunes On Playing Disgraced News Anchor Huw Edwards: \u201cWe Watched Him Every Night. He Sort Of Seeped In\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0167340\/\">Martin Clunes<\/a> believes no one in the UK truly knows the story of disgraced <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1075114\/\">BBC<\/a> news anchor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0250048\/\">Huw Edwards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10849925\/\">Edwards<\/a>, who paid a teenager at the BBC for sexual pictures and subsequently pled guilty to making indecent images of children, is the subject of a new drama for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0739819\/\">Paramount UK<\/a> network 5 starring the Wuthering Heights actor as the lead.<\/p>\n<p>As he was learning lines and rehearsing, Clunes said he realized there was plenty of misinformation swirling around Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid anybody here know the whole story before the show?,\u201d asked Clunes of the audience at yesterday\u2019s London screening of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39314315\/\">Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards<\/a>. \u201cThere was a lot of fudgery around it. There was sympathy for him until they found what was on his phone but I think maybe everybody lost interest by that point because the next bit of news came along. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> had done something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Clunes believes no one in the UK truly knows the story of disgraced BBC news anchor Huw Edwards. 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