The BBC presenter facing allegations he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photographs also sent threatening messages to another young person in their early 20s, the UK broadcaster itself reported on Tuesday.
The fresh allegations add further pressure to the BBC as it deals with the fallout from the separate claims made against the unnamed male presenter and first reported by The Sun newspaper at the weekend.
According to the BBC, the presenter at the centre of the new allegations met the young person on a dating app before their conversations moved to other platforms.
He then revealed his identity and asked the young person not to tell anyone, BBC News reported.
The young person later posted online alluding to having had contact with the presenter and hinted they might name him.
He then allegedly sent a number of "threatening messages," which the BBC says it has seen and confirmed came from a phone number belonging to the presenter.
The BBC said the young person felt "threatened" by the messages and "remains scared."
BBC News said it had contacted the presenter via his lawyer, but had received no response to the allegations.
The Sun first made allegations on Friday about the unnamed presenter in which it says a young person – who the broadcaster said is not connected to the person in the BBC report – was paid around £35,000 ($45,000) over three years, from the age of 17, for explicit images.
An unnamed police force has confirmed it was contacted by the parents of the young person in April, BBC News has reported.
The force said that "no criminality was identified" initially, however it has since met with London's Metropolitan Police and the BBC, it was alleged.
A police statement said: "As a result of recent developments, further inquiries are ongoing to establish whether there is evidence of a criminal offence."
Earlier, BBC director-general Tim Davie said he has ordered a review to "assess how some complaints are red flagged up the organization."
Davie said he was first informed of the original allegations seven weeks after the family first complained about the presenter to the BBC, when the newspaper said it would be publishing its front page story.
He told reporters this was because there was no response to the attempts to make contact and investigators could not verify the family's claims.
The corporation has also been asked to pause its internal investigation into the first allegations "while the police scope future work" following a meeting with the Metropolitan Police.
