When a random British news anchor gets busted for a crime, and all of a sudden, the media is going on about how he was a legend, and that he needs to be scrubbed out of existence to purge the embarrassment.
The British media is just weird.
I just find it weird. They talk as if this guy is a big shot but he is just a random guy who reads the news (and he hadn't even been doing the job for long). When you look at the news, it's a bunch of non-notable figures who don't do anything beyond conveying a story. Who is thinking much of the news guy?
Also, I wonder if putting such a big emphasis on this guy doesn't just do the opposite of what they want by turning an otherwise non-notable figure into a bigger story. It is this that might make him more famous.
From the sounds of it, it was probably some sort of sting operation.