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BBC News at Ten presenter on the after-effects of Covid, terrible haircuts and the lessons learned from a big family
In times of crisis, we turn to the familiar. And, over the past three decades, there have been few more reassuring faces than Huw Edwards, the 59-year-old presenter of BBC One’s News at Ten. During the pandemic, ratings of the nightly bulletin have shot up, often topping 6 million viewers. Edwards, meanwhile, has had an eventful 2020: in March, he had Covid himself; in the summer, he became a
Social Media meme with #dothehuw. A proud Welshman, he has five children with his wife Vicky Flind, editor of ITV’s Peston, and lives in south
London.
What’s behind the ratings boost that News at Ten, and other news programmes, have had this year?With so much crap and misinformation out there on various platforms, I think it’s good that people have turned to broadcast news as a trusted source. Now, I know that we sometimes annoy people. And I know that we sometimes get stuff wrong. But at a time of crisis, if people were not turning to us, I’d be very worried, because that would be the ultimate proof that we’d lost people’s trust.