BBC Suspends Presenter Over Claims He Paid a Teenager for Explicit Photos

People arrive and depart from Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in London, on July 2, 2015. Paul Hackett/File Photo/Reuters

The BBC has suspended an unnamed leading presenter who is alleged to have paid a teenager thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos.

The Sun newspaper, which first reported the allegations, said last week that one of the BBC’s star presenters paid a teenager more than £35,000 ($45,000) over three years to pose for sexually explicit photos, beginning when the youth was 17 years old.