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contacted anonymously by the bbc presenter via a dating app and claims the presenter then sent menacing messages. our special correspondent lucy manning has the story — and she's with me now. to be clear, this is a different young person to the one the sun has reported about. this individual was first contacted by the mail presenter on a dating app and after the two had connected on the app, the two had connected on the app, the conversation moved to private messaging and the young person has told bbc news they were surprised to find out who the presenter was when he revealed his i...

to a teenager for explicit photos. the bbc has released new details of its investigation into the claims. it says just two attempts were made over several weeks to contact the family concerned. the bbc�*s director general tim davie confirmed that the unnamed presenter was not spoken to about the issue until seven weeks after the initial complaint when new information had emerged. he also conceded, that the allegations had been "clearly damaging". the bbc has been asked to pause its investigation by police while they make further inquiries. on may 18th, the complainant went to a bbc...

ping up goodbye to one area another one will ping up out of nowhere to move back across the uk. it is that repeating pattern we will see over the next few days and it's exactly why the weather is this damage was all so preventable. this programme continues on bbc one. for sexually explicit pictures. tonight, lawyers for the individual say the claims in the newspaper are "rubbish". the bbc has been on the back foot for days, the sun is standing by its story, the high profile star remains unamed officially, and we don't know how the young person at the heart of this story is. where doe...

Received no response. untiljune 6th when the bbc says it made a phone call to the complainant which didn't connect. no further attempts to contact the complainant were made for a month. that takes us tojuly 6th, when the sun informed the bbc of the allegations it was intending to publish. also on that day, the director general tim davie says he was made aware of the matter for the first time. and that's also when the first conversation was had with the presenter at the centre of the allegations. the following day, the sun published its story. the bbc says it made contact with the complainant o...