Huw Edwards

'Presenters were gods': Russell Brand and the BBC's problem with power-wielding talent

Director-general Tim Davie has been hit by a series of scandals from Tim Westwood to Huw Edwards. Now he has to guide the corporation through its latest crisis.

BBC's Dead Ringers lampoons Huw Edwards scandal

'We should leave The Sun alone so it can recover away from the public gaze,' says mock-guest Rupert Murdoch.

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Considering he's possibly the world's most charming man, Stephen Fry is never too far away from controversy. The publication of the third volume of his memoirs, More Fool Me, was accompanied by a racket as some readers and commentators demanded he be retrospectively prosecuted for his acknowledged cocaine use in the 1980s.

But Fry was determined to tell what he's described as the "ugly truth" about his drug-taking past that even saw him snorting cocaine during a reception at Buckingham Palace. "I was an imbecile, an idiot, I got caught up in a ridiculous dependency," he told Huw Edwards recently.

Another man who's had his own monumental battles with addiction, Robert Downey Jr, joins Fry and Oscar-winning Robert Duvall on the Norton sofa.

Bafta Cymru: Rhod Gilbert among nominations

Comedian and presenter Rhod Gilbert (Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience) is up against Huw Edwards, for Fire in the West - The Llanelli Riots of 1911 and Lowri Morgan for S4C's [ii]Ras yn Erbyn Amser[/i], in the best presenter category.

Video - David Walliams: Blessed Olympics are in London

David Walliams has said that he feels 'blessed' that the Olympics are being hosted in London.

Speaking from Team GB house, the comedian said: "There is something very special about sport, something very special about the Olympics".

This week the show it features not one, but two, token women!

Josie Lawrence and Sarah Millican join host Rob Brydon and team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell to help sort fact from fiction.

Also in tonight's episode we hear about the evil eye expression Huw Edwards employs during interviews.

And former Corrie star, game-show host and corpser extraordinaire Bradley Walsh fails miserably to maintain a poker face tonight.

His story - involving the theft of some mashed potato - will be submitted to the show's usual ruthless scrutiny, cross-interrogation and lightning wit.

"Talk about the Euro and do it with some level of insight!" demands David Mitchell of Lee Mack, in that pretend-outraged voice he uses a lot on this show. Mack gets his own back by demanding that Mitchell talk about last year's Carling Cup final. Neither of them can oblige, of course, but that's not the point: they're putting to the test the idea that Huw Edwards has an "evil eye" expression he uses to cut colleagues short in a studio discussion if they're going on too long. Edwards scowls a lot to demonstrate.

Sarah Millican, Josie Lawrence and Bradley Walsh are the other guests, with Walsh enjoyably corpsing as he tries to pretend he once stole mashed potato from his teachers.