BBC Says Scott Mills Was Fired After ‘New Information’ Came to Light, Confirms It Knew About Prior Police Investigation: ‘We Are Doing More Work to Understand the Detail’

By K.J. Yossman

K.J. Yossman

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The BBC has admitted that it was aware of a police investigation into allegations Scott Mills engaged in sexual offenses involving a teenage boy.

One of the BBC’s top radio presenters, Mills was dismissed on Tuesday, seemingly out of the blue. It soon emerged he had been questioned by police in 2018 in relation to the allegation.

Now the BBC has said that despite being aware of the investigation, it hired him last year to takeover from Zoe Ball on its flagship program “The Breakfast Show.”

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