Former BBC newsreader Simon McCoy has claimed that Huw Edwards "put a stop" to a planned series the day before it was set to launch. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement"Management caved," he continued, "and that was a frustration of how that place [the BBC] worked." Simon McCoy on BBC News (BBC)McCoy said that the presenter in question was now-disgraced news anchor Huw Edwards, who left the organisation in 2024 amid a police investigation into offences related to indecent images of children. Forde then asked if he thought Edwards had intervened in McCoy's prospective BBC show because he was "jealous or threatened". Disgraced BBC newsreader Huw Edwards (PA Archive)"I was never a threat to Huw Edwards," he said.