By David Young-
The BBC presenter at the centre of a sex scandal has been urged by fellow presenter Jeremy Vine (pictured) to come forward as fresh allegations have emerged.
There are now four separate allegations against the household-name TV personality, including breaking lockdown rules and sending threatening messages to a person in their early twenties who he met on a dating app.
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According to the new claims, the presenter visited the person he met online and sent cash to them according to The Sun, with the paper further alleging he travelled out of London in February 2021 to meet them.
The unnamed person said: “He (The BBC star) came round for an hour. I was quite shocked that he broke the rules to come and meet me because of who he is. I was just a random person online.”
Jeremy Vine urged the unnamed figure to “come forward publicly” as speculation about their identity deepens.
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On Tuesday evening, Vine joined Piers Morgan in suggesting the anonymous presenter – who has been suspended by the BBC – should make himself known.
“These new allegations will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues of his. And the BBC, which I’m sure he loves, is on its knees with this”, Mr Vine tweeted.
He said on twitter he is beginning to believe the unnamed man “should now come forward publicly” because the new allegations “will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues”.
“I’m starting to think the BBC Presenter involved in the scandal should now come forward publicly,” Vine wrote on Twitter.
“These new allegations will result in yet more vitriol being thrown at perfectly innocent colleagues of his.
“And the BBC, which I’m sure he loves, is on its knees with this. But it is his decision and his alone.
The Sun’s new report claims messages seen by the publication suggest the presenter travelled from London to a different county to meet a 23-year-old man at their flat in February 2021, when strict coronavirus lockdown rules were in place – including a stay at home order and mixing only between household bubbles.
The newspaper said it has seen messages which suggest the presenter travelled to see the young person in February 2021, after meeting them on a dating website the previous November.
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