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A BBC journo last night said 'he' and immediately corrected themselves to 'they'. That was just as the not news was breaking, so the Beeb were clearly still trying to keep the identity totally anonymised at that stage.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66148321 - 2 days ago
"For days, two questions have been burning in relation to the allegations concerning a BBC star: do they amount to a crime, and why isn't he being named by journalists?"
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66165766 - 1 day ago (prior to statement being released identifying the person)
The individual in their early 20s was first contacted anonymously by the male presenter on a dating app.
Was definitely common before the name was released, and even explicitly so. It may well have started from the original article (I'm not giving the publication any clicks so have not read it to be fair). Just stuck out as odd.
I mean it's not like it's going to pinpoint the person in question (I don't really have a decent idea of the percentage of presenters that are male), but it stuck out to me and it didn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. Especially as it wasn't discussed in relation to the person providing the photos.
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I found it odd that despite the whole thing about them not wanting to divulge any info that might led to them being identified, they were constantly referred to by "he" as opposed to "they".
It was done for the person sending the pictures to the point that I just assumed they were female until it was explicitly mentioned that they were male.