Madeleine McCann: Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters And Rape
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: “MADELEINE: £1M WAR FOR MCCANN INTERVIEW”
“AMERICA’S top chat show hosts are locked in a bidding war for an exclusive interview with the parents of Madeleine McCann. Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters have each pledged £1million in an attempt to get them in front of the TV cameras, it emerged yesterday”
Winfrey and Walters - the Pope and Queen Mother of Ameican TV chatter…
Do those shows take advertising? They do. What will the ad-breaks induce viewers to buy? What is the point of the interview? The McCanns cannot discuss the case.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “We are not in the market for selling Kate and Gerry’s story to the highest bidder. And we are not impressed by big names. We talk to media from all over the world”
But money is important. The fighting fun is running low
DAILY MAIL: “Kate and Gerry McCann in £1million deal to tell all to Oprah Winfrey”
“Kate and Gerry McCann are at the centre of a bidding war between Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters.
“Both celebrities are desperate to land an exclusive deal for the couple to talk about their missing daughter. If it goes ahead, it will be the largest publicly-known amount ever paid for a broadcast interview”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We have been approached by representatives for both Oprah and Barbara,” he added. “They want an exclusive interview with Kate and Gerry. We are discussing it but it doesn’t mean we are definitely doing it. Nothing has been agreed”
Why wouldn’t they do it?
PRESS ASSOCIATION: “US chat shows approach McCanns”
“Kate and Gerry McCann have been approached to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show and for an interview with American network ABC, their spokesman has confirmed.
It was reported that the McCanns were at the centre of a bidding war worth £1 million between Winfrey and ABC star Barbara Walters who both want an exclusive interview with the couple.
THE SUN: “Maddie sketch farmer raped girl”
“The gun-toting pig farmer quizzed in the Maddie McCann hunt was once jailed for raping a British teenager — in Praia da Luz. Joaquim Jose Marques, 31, who bears a resemblance to the sketch of a mystery suspect, served five years. Portuguese cops who grilled him twice at his ramshackle farmhouse nearby are now convinced he is NOT the man in the drawing”
NOT the man. So why is he in the papers?
“But we can reveal Marques and a pal carried out a brutal attack on two British girls, aged 17 and 18, after prowling the beach in July 1995 at the resort where Maddie vanished”
A heinous crime for which he was punished. But what has it to do with Madeleine McCann?
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE WEIRDO RAPED TEEN BRIT”
“The gun-toting Portuguese pig farmer quizzed over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance raped a British teenager yards from where the four-year-old vanished. Joaquim Jose Marques put his 18-year-old victim through a horrific late-night sex ordeal while an accomplice targeted her pal”
Eighteen..
“Now locals fear he is the same man pictured on a ‘wanted’ poster issued by the McCanns as they step up the hunt for their daughter”
Local residents, or local reporters? And is “fear” really “hope”?
DAILY MIRROR: “Madeleine McCann suspect spotted ’spying on little boys’”
“Five women holidaymakers - three British and two German - have seen the “strange and disturbed” man in Altura, close to the Portuguese-Spanish border, in the past two weeks. One of the British witnesses noticed him on the beach on January 21 bending down to talk to the boys, aged about four or five.
“Clearly worried, one of the youngsters started shaking his head mid-conversation. Then a woman ran out of a nearby villa, shouting in alarm. She scooped the children up and hurried them away.”
Adults. children. Run, children, run!
DAILY TELEGRAPH (Aus): “Oprah’s $2m bid for Maddie chat”
“Mr Mitchell said the McCanns would only agree to a deal which would widen the search for their daughter. The couple, both doctors, also want to campaign for a better Europe-wide alert system for missing children, based on an American model”
A campaign
Madeleine McCann: A media event
Posted: 26th, January 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (730) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
wtf
sorry i was telling stevet who from neighbours is now in emerdale!!! lol
I do not look like Madge or mrs mangel lol
January 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I was once likened to a hollywood star. Unfortunately it was Lassie.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
When I was younger I looked like monica from friends
Now I look like her when she was retro and did that dance!!
but not the hair!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
345 brandon flours
dont believe you, you dont come across as a madge! you sound too spunky
January 26th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
343 steve t
As long as he left out the wrinkly bits!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
eeermmm
Madge!!!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
341 brandon flours
was likened to goldie hawn when i had longer hair, what bout you?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
338
wtf
We could get an FBI artist to do sketches of all of us.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Are the McCanns as arguidos allowed to leave the UK?
Or will Oprah have to come over?
I think I read something over Christmas that at least they have to inform the PJ where they are going to. Don’t know if they have to ask the if they are allowed to travel, or if they just have to inform the PJ.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
You first then WTF
Which famous person are you likened too?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Brandon,
Who is the one on Emmerdale?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
They’d fit right in!
Theres less thann 200 yrds to the Vic too!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
it would be nice to put faces to all the names on here, dont you think?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
The square needs a new GP!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I am more Mrs mangel
January 26th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I think Kate and Gerry should be given parts on Eastenders or Coronation Street, playing themselves.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Brandon,
Kylie.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
stevet
Are you more Harold or lou?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Brandon,
Away.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Brandon,
No, Im more Neighbours.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
327 sc45
yeah, i need one too! fancy a dance?
January 26th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Stevet
Hello are you home or away?
January 26th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
320
Peter O
That scares me! The extradition lawyer could be useful to them if they could enter the US.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
wtf - Can I have a top-up please?
January 26th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
316
wtf Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
does anyone take any notice of supposed sightings anymore?
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They do when they are this funny…
January 26th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Wtf
?????????????????????
January 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I think its ruse to go their and then on to mexico
January 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
319 brandon flours
Every time a sighting was reported their response was they didnt get their hopes up, yet clarrie claimed that they were “bouyant” about gail coopers sketch! doesnt make sense to me
January 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
313
BabyJane Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
….Did you also have to smile a bit, when you read the “technician in refrigeration”-thing?
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I will confess to a lifted eyebrow; I saved the side-splitting guffaws for the vision conjured up by the Nobel Comittee’s citation for Gabriela Mistral’s Prize for Literature.
Of all the possible things which could happen to a small child kidnapped and taken halfway around the world by someone who has been claimed to be obviously and unequivocally evil, a visit to a museum dedicated to the life and works of a lady poet brings joy to the heart.
Somehow, I doubt that this is Clarrie’s reaction…
January 26th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
wtf -Brandon
You can only cry wolf so many times, and they have done it too often. Every “new” story they bring out looks like a complete joke.