Rylan furiously denies he’s ‘axed BBC star who paid teen for explicit photos’

Rylan Clark took to Twitter on Saturday morning to shut down any suspicions that he is the unnamed BBC star who has reportedly been taken off air after paying a teenager since they were 17 for “sexually explicit photographs”.

The former Strictly It Takes Two presenter raged: “Not sure why my names floating about but re that story in the sun.

“That ain’t me babe. I’m Currently filming a show in Italy for the bbc, so take my name out ya mouths.” (sic)

On Friday, a mother accused an unnamed BBC presenter of making several payments over the past three years to her child in exchange for photographs.

Speaking to The Sun, she “blamed” the man for “destroying my child’s life”, as she claimed the money handed to the alleged recipient was used to fuel their crack cocaine addiction.

The mother claimed her now 20-year-old child showed her an online bank statement that had numerous deposits from the BBC presenter.

She alleged: “There were huge sums, hundreds, or thousands of pounds at a time. One time he had sent £5,000 in one lump. The money had been in exchange for sexually explicit photographs of my child.”

The report claimed the alleged recipient would have received more than £35,000 from the presenter over the past few years.

The family also claim to have complained to the BBC about the presenter’s behaviour on May 19 and begged them to make the man “stop sending the cash”.

When asked to comment about the allegations, a BBC spokesperson told Express.co.uk: “We treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them.

“As part of that, if we receive information that requires further investigation or examination we will take steps to do this.

“That includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of the situation.

“If we get no reply to our attempts or receive no further contact that can limit our ability to progress things but it does not mean our enquiries stop.

“If, at any point, new information comes to light or is provided – including via newspapers – this will be acted upon appropriately, in line with internal processes.”