DISGRACED Huw Edwards has been spotted for the first time since The Sun released the first look at the new TV drama on his crimes.
The former newsreader was snapped keeping a low profile as he visited a Starbucks in South Wales while puffing on a vape.
Edwards once glittering career ended in disgrace when he was sentenced for possessing extreme child abuse images in July 2023.
In new images, the 64-year-old could be seen sitting alone in the window of a Starbucks.
He quickly donned a baseball cap before he left, smoking from a vape as he made his way back to his car.
The ex-BBC anchor had previously sparked speculation he was making a comeback after posting a professional headshot on social media last month.
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But the page was deleted just days later following backlash from the victims’ families and MPs in December, also in South Wales.
Edwards was also spotted rummaging his coat pocket on a lonely birthday shopping trip last August.
And just months before, he was seen puffing on a vape as he broke cover the the first time since dodging prison.
But the newest snaps emerged after it was announced this week that BAFTA-winning actor Martin Clunes will play the presenter in the Channel 5 two-parter based on our award winning exclusives.
The Sun’s extensive dossier of evidence convinced Clunes to take on the drastically different role ofnewsanchor Edwards.
The two-parter will feature Edwards’infamous visit to Cardiff Central Train station— when the stepfather at the heart of our story went to confront him after reading messages that he was about to meet his stepson.
For years The Sun had received reports of Edwards’ “creepy” online behaviour with young men onInstagram. But insummer2023 we received a sinister call.
A concerned man claimed the newsreader had been sending his teenage stepsonmoneyin exchange for sexual images.
The family had complained to theBBCbut had no help from them.
The Sun gave the family a voice — and it is their testimony that forms the core of the drama.
Our first story was published in July, 2023.
Brazen Edwards denied the story but was suspended by the BBC in July 2023.
Within days, and amid feverish speculation, he was named by his wife as the star accused ofpaying £35,000 to a vulnerable young man.
Edwards stood down from the BBC in April 2024.
That July The Sun exclusively revealed he’d beencharged with multiple offencesof making indecent images of children, including of a child as young as seven.
He pleaded guilty and received a six-month suspended jail sentence in September 2024.
The first glimpse of the show — working title Power: The Downfall ofHuw Edwards – show Clunes’ incredible transformation into Edwards.
And he relishedthe challengeof playing a man who went from being one of Britain’s best-loved and most-trustedTVstars to being exposed as the twisted groomer of a 17-year-old boy.
The Sun also reported earlier this month that the BBC is set to spend £240,000 a year on experts to root out misconduct in the wake of the Huw Edwards and Gregg Wallace scandals.