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
Comments
January 26th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
376
wtf
Dont forget to get right under the floor tiles!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Brandon,
Sorry, answered what?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Mrs Bounty Hunter,
Me as well!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
373 steve t
i have not passed out, just ran the hoover round the living room though, to try at least to look as if there has been some activity in the house today!:lol:
January 26th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
stevet
you still havent answered me 370
January 26th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Shall I call Sky News?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
MRS BOUNTY SAYS
STEVET But they did the runner from Portugal day after they were arguidod, that to me and many others suggested guilt. IMO
January 26th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Has everybody else passed out?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Mrs Bounty Hunter,
At least if they do a runner they will be admitting guilt, which would be a first.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
368 lindy
I know when im well oiled when i want to do karaoke! not a pretty sight! Not good flashbacks the next day either!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
like that fella from red dwarf in corrie?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
MRS BOUNTY SAYS STEVE T
It is all just too much sudden sighting in Chile talk of doing chat shows in USA, next stop Chile ? wont put anything past thoe two.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
wtf . jeeze you must be well oiled by now!!!!!!!!!! only joking ,whoop’s fell off the stool.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
364 steve t
OMG call clarrie!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I wonder how the TV psychics are getting on. Anyone heard anything? Does anyone think there’s a blackout on them as well? Would they be allowed by the powers to report back?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Does Portugal have an Extradition Treaty with Chile ?
The Dr’s might just be considering to get off their backsides and pretend
to want to do something which neither have actually done before…search
for Madeleine….in Chile….long search intended.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Brandon,
Im like Phil Mitchell with rabbit teeth and dreadlocks.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
359 brandon flours
I tell everyone i was 12 when i had my son! tell them i was nipped in the bud! I then tell them im Joking, cos you know how rumours start!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
stevet
come on!!!
I bet you are a bit like phil mitchell but with kinder eyes and more hair
January 26th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
355
bountyhunter
Did the PJ find any books on Ronnie Biggs in the McCanns appartment?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
358 lindy
heloooo…….. welcome back, im afraid i carried on drinking in your absence. kept your seat tho!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Wtf
I know what you mean
I was still telling everyone I was 29 when I realised that I the people/ parents i was talking to must have thought I was 14 when I had my daughter!!
Im 35! lol
January 26th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
wtf 300. I’m here you took to long getting the choc’s,drank your glass then went to wash my wig.Another glass poured cheers!!!!!!!!!!!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
354 brandon flours
Yeah, the kind of face you want to slap! can see him typing in some grotty bedsit in a dirty vest!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
352 brandon flours
im afraid im 44 ish! but i am currently disputing my birth certificate with my mother!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
PETER O STEVET
This sighting in Chile ??? Perhaps ask to do a quick talk show, promise to be back within 5 days, then hop on a jet to Chile ? Forged passports, wigs, beards moustaches etc. Could the PJ get them back ? Please tell me this could not happen
MRS BOUNTY ASKING
January 26th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
garth is rik from bottom
January 26th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
349 steve t
nothing wrong with lassie, very loyal, and has soulful eyes
January 26th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
wtf
How old are you ish ?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
348 brandon flours
Your a stunner! what about garth, what do you think he looks like, would be fun making an identikit for him!