Jeremy Vine agrees 'financial settlement' with Twitter user who wrongly named him as BBC presenter

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Jeremy Vine has agreed a financial settlement with a Twitter user who falsely identified him as the BBC presenter at the centre of the Huw Edwards furore.The Channel 5 star was one of several BBC presenters, including Gary Lineker, Rylan Clark and Nicky Campbell, who were forced to publicly deny claims on social media that they were the unnamed TV star facing the allegations.On Sunday, the 58-year-old said he received an apology from a Twitter user who had “libelled” him by wrongly claiming he was the BBC presenter.Speaking of the Twitter user, 58-year-old Jeremy said: “He has now acknowledged that he was wrong, and has apologised.“At my request, he has also agreed to pay £1,000 to @mndassoc rather than paying damages.”Before Huw Edwards was named by his wife as the BBC presenter facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit images, Jeremy Vine appealed on Twitter for the presenter to “come forward”.He later said on his Channel 5 show: “It’s his decision, but he needs to come forward now, I think.”Jeremy, who also hosts an afternoon programme on BBC Radio 2, added: “I had a situation: I was going to see Bruce Springsteen at the weekend and my wife said ‘Are you going to be safe there?’“That’s how serious this thing is, and she gave me a baseball cap and said ‘You’d better wear this’.”The BBC said it is continuing its “fact-finding investigations” into allegations against veteran broadcaster Edwards following the naming of the presenter by his wife on Wednesday night.After days of conjecture and Huw Edwards’ name being speculated about on social media, wife Vicky Flind issued a statement to say the father-of-five is “suffering from serious mental health issues” and is receiving in-patient hospital care.Huw