14 DAY TRIAL // Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is no longer happy to be talking about the bribing scandal that brought her on the first page of all magazines in 2010, when she offered to sell access to ex-husband Prince Andrew. Consequently, she stormed out of an interview because of it.
Billed “the weirdest interview you’ll ever see,” it was conducted by the Nine Network for a segment on “60 Minutes” and was meant to promote Ferguson’s reality series.
However, despite the fact that her manager had talked to the show’s producer in advance and that she’d been made aware of the questions asked, Ms. Ferguson got incredibly irritable throughout the interview.
Eventually, she just got up and left, 9News’ NineMSN reports.
“The footage shows Ferguson snapping at [reporter Michael] Usher, glaring at him with a furious expression, rolling her eyes, sighing angrily and demanding producers ‘delete that bit’,” the publication writes.
Apparently, she got this mad because she’d been shown footage from 2010, when undercover reporters for News of the World filmed her asking and accepting bribe in exchange for access to her ex-husband.
She then stormed out of the interview, as the video below – a teaser for the full show – will confirm.
Ferguson’s manager is telling the press that she walked out because she’d been “ambushed” when she was shown the footage, and that she had no idea that it would be shown.
Nevertheless, 60 Minutes executive producer Hamish Thomson is saying an entirely different story: Sarah and her manager had been forwarded all questions in advance.
In fact, just minutes before sitting down, she and the reporter were talking about the video and the bribing scandal and then, when the cameras were turned on, she just froze.
“But then bizarrely when we went inside the house for the sit-down interview when Michael asked ii she became quite frosty,” Thomson says.
“[Her manager] would be naive to think that we wouldn’t use the most dramatic feature of the interview to promote the story, he’s a professional media manager,” the show’s producer adds.
Sarah Ferguson’s rep wants the network to stop airing the teaser below because, he says, she came back and carried the interview through.