Rivals in the profession but partners in real life; Huw Edwards and his wife despite working in two rival news broadcast still maintain a steady relationship.
Welsh Newsreader Huw Edwards is acknowledged as the leading anchor of the BBC’s breaking news across the United Kingdom. Huw’s ally with BBC spans over three decades and still carries the flagship of the network’s most beloved evening show, BBC News at Ten.
Wife Works With His Rival Channel
Huw is married to former BBC Producer, Vicky Flind. The pair’s initial meeting was back in the days when Huw worked as a BBC correspondent at Westminster. However, both the husband and wife remain low-key to reveal any relevant information about their matrimony. Huw shares five children; three sons named Dan, Amos and Sammy and two daughters, Hannah and Rebecca Edwards with his beloved spouse.
His wife was a long-time editor of The Week Politics Show on the BBC Network.
However, she left the network back in 2016 to ally with Robert Peston ITV’s program, Peston on Sunday. Huw and Robert had worked for a decade at BBC, and his exit from the network in 2015 brought bitter rivalry between the duo.
Peston is also considered one of the rival TV Programs including reporter Andrew Marr's Show on BBC.
Similarly, his wife followed Robert’s footstep after her partner had a public spat with ITV over the viewership to its news programmes. Robert shared a Facebook post in November 2015 and mocked ITV’s newly-relaunched News at Ten for losing viewers. Huw wrote,
"They just about managed 2 million – having conspired to lose 4 million viewers in a few minutes after the excellent Doc Martin. We were watched by 4.4million. So it’s business as usual.”
Although it was a tough choice for his better half to leave her job at BBC, she was reportedly excited to work with Peston.
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How Much Salary Does Huw Edwards Receive?
Huw salary decreased after 20% remuneration cut, which is equivalent to around £120,000 a year at BBC. He was reportedly earning a stupendous salary between £550,000 and £599,000. However, after gender pay inequality, he agreed to a pay cut in June 2018.
Huw was listed as one of the highest earning BBC reporters. However, after his pay cut, he is entitled to a wage package of £450,000. The BBC had also proposed an agreement rule of £320,000 pay cap on its news readers after the altercation over gender pay inequality.
The reporter summons his net worth from his professional news reporting career since 1984 and has summons millions of dollars worth of fortunes.
Huw’s Family: Opens Cafe In University In Father’s Memoir
Huw’s late father, Hywel Teifi Edwards was a Welsh Language activist and a Research Professor of Welsh-language Literature at the University College, Swansea. He opened a University cafe, Hoffi Coffi at Swansea University on 17 March 2011 in the memory of his late dad, which aids Welsh speakers and learners to socialize.
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His mother, Aerona Protheroe was a teacher and taught at the bilingual school named Llanelli's Ysgol Gyfun y Strade for over three decades. Huw is very close to his mom, and the relationship between them is very significant. He had posted a sweet Mother’s Day Tweet for Aerona and all the people missing their mum’s on 11 March 2018.
Huw on his 2012 interview with Dailymail talked his favorite book to be How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn. He feels connected to Richard publication, which depicts the hardship of the people from the mining community since his maternal grandfather passed at the mining accident when he was 28 years of age.
Weight Loss; Thanks To His Boxing Classes!
Huw is aging like wine, all acknowledgments to his intense weight loss programs. The reporter was the center of attraction from his physical appearance at the news coverage of the British Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on 19 May 2018.
The correspondent perfectly fitted his blue suit and looked mesmerized by his new toned look.
It is reported that Huw shed three stone (42 pounds) from his new boxing workout classes with former Light welterweight boxer, Clinton McKenzie. According to The Sun, Huw weight dropped from 16 stone to 13 stone.
Huw Edwards (left in 2007) to his recent weight loss appearance (right) at the British Royal Wedding on 19 May 2018 (Photo: Dailymail.co.uk)
After the drastic physical change from weight loss programmes, Huw should have probably taken his possible health complications behind a backseat.
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Short Bio
The British Journalist, age 57, was born on 18 August 1961 Bridgend, Wales as per wiki. The BBC Presenter stands at the height of 1.83 m (6’), and his birth sign is Leo.
Talking about his education, Huw went to Llanelli Boys' Grammar School and later attended University College, Cardiff to complete his graduation with a first-class honors degree in French from in 1983.
