Huw Edwards’s biography, age, wife, BBC, net worth

Huw Edwards (born 18 August 1961) is a Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten, the flagship evening news program of the BBC.

On 5 July 2019, Edwards was awarded a fellowship at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. In 2022, he was appointed vice president of The Bach Choir.

He is also an amateur organist, taught to play at a chapel in Llanelli, and occasionally plays at the Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel in Clerkenwell, north London.

Huw Edwards’s early life and education

Huw Edwards was born on 18 August 1961 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, into a Welsh-speaking family, and, from the age of four, was brought up in Llangennech, near Llanelli. His father, Hywel Teifi Edwards, was a Plaid Cymru and Welsh language activist, and an author and academic, who was Research Professor of Welsh-language Literature at University College, Swansea. Edwards’ mother, Aerona Protheroe, taught at Llanelli’s Ysgol Gyfuny Strade for 30 years.

He has one sister, Meinir. He was educated at Llanelli Boys’ Grammar School and graduated with a first-class honours degree in French from University College, Cardiff, in 1983. After his first degree, he started postgraduate work at Cardiff University in Medieval French, before becoming a reporter for local radio station Swansea Sound and then joining the BBC.

In 2018, Edwards was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, with a thesis on Welsh Nonconformist chapels in Llanelli and London, by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His doctoral thesis was titled O Dinopolis i Fetropolis: arolwg o lanw a thrai achosion Ymneilltuol Cymraeg yn Llanelli a Llundain, 1714-2014 (“From Tinopolis to Metropolis: a survey of the ebb and flow of Welsh Dissident cases in Llanelli and London, 1714–2014”).

He said, “It’s 12 years since I was here to receive an honorary fellowship which was a great day but today is an even bigger day because I am receiving my PhD after 7 agonising years of hard work on the history of the Welsh chapels in the 18th century.”

Huw Edwards’s age

Huw Edwards was born on 18 August 1961 which makes him 62 years old.

Huw Edwards’s wife

Edwards is married to Vicky Flind, a television producer, whose credits include editing This Week and Peston. The couple live in Dulwich, London, and have five children. Edwards is a Christian and is a weekly churchgoer. He has stated that he has had bouts of depression since 2002.

Huw Edwards’s BBC career

Edwards spent a short time on work experience at the commercial radio station Swansea Sound, before joining the BBC as a news trainee in 1984. In 1986, he became a parliamentary correspondent for BBC Wales.

Between 1994 and January 2003, Edwards presented the BBC Six O’Clock News. During this period, this was the most-watched news programme in Britain.

In January 2003, Edwards became the main presenter of the Ten O’Clock News on BBC One, the corporation’s flagship news broadcast. Along with David Dimbleby, he also presents various special programs such as the Festival of Remembrance, Trooping the Colour and the State Opening of Parliament. He led the BBC commentary team at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2012 London Olympics and 2014 Commonwealth Games. He has presented several election specials, including coverage of the 2007 National Assembly for Wales election for BBC Wales and also the BBC coverage of the results of the 2008 United States elections and the inauguration of Barack Obama. He was formerly chief political correspondent for BBC News, and spent more than 14 years reporting politics from Westminster across a range of BBC programmes.

Edwards has also presented or contributed to a range of other BBC News programmes, including Breakfast News, One O’Clock News, Newsnight and Panorama. Since April 2006, Edwards has presented the newly established BBC News at Five on the 24-hour BBC News channel. On 29 April 2011 he presented the BBC coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. The coverage was watched by 20 million viewers at peak in the United Kingdom and the team won a BAFTA Award for Best Coverage of a Live Event. In June 2012 he presented the BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. In December 2013 he led the first few hours of BBC News coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela on BBC One, BBC News Channel and BBC World News. In 2014 Edwards presented BBC local elections taking over coverage from David Dimbleby.

Huw Edwards’s salary and net worth

He earned £550,000–£599,999 as a BBC presenter for several years. His salary was reduced voluntarily in the light of gender pay differences found within the BBC.

Press Gazette announced his new salary to be £520,000–£529,999 as of July 2018. His salary was further reduced in 2019, with his salary in May 2021 reported to be £465,000, and reduced further to £435,000–£439,999 in July 2023.

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