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
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January 26th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
407
Matt
Brilliant, colour coordinated for Cuddlecat as well!
January 26th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
STEVE T
Or in his new space travel machine saw it on Sky a couple of days ago ! Perhaps it will have a crash landing in Chile ?
January 26th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
403…SteveT
Would you like to ride in my beautiful….pink… balloon
Would you like to ride in my beautiful….pink… balloon
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away my beautiful, my beautiful…pink… balloon
The world’s a nicer place in my beautiful…pink… balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful…pink… balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away my beautiful, my beautiful…pink…balloon
January 26th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
404 Mrs Bounty Hunter
Yep! Do they get paid for their time?
January 26th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
404 steve t
they certainly have enough hot air between them to fly around the world and back!
January 26th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
MRS BOUNTYHUNTER SAYS
CHRISTENE There you go, the sympathy angle being hotted up by their creepycrawley palls on the other blogs !
January 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
401
bountyhunter
How about an escape in one of Mr.Branson’s balloons?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
There seems to be a lot of Team McCann members on the daily mail ‘have your say’ today. Re OPrah show - “Go for it Kate and Gerry” etc etc, whilst squeezing their cuddlecats no doubt.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
MRS BOUNTYHUNTER SAYS
STEVE T they will leg it given half a chance and it wont be to Portugal. They are busy working out a plan, that I am sure of. Specially as the Oprah story is an old one suddenly dished up today. Perhaps the PJ are very close to heading to Rothley ?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
398
Grande Finale
But they said that it was arranged before they were made arguidos! Surely they would not tell untruths.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
393 - wtf :
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As you say - must be the vino!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
SteveT Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
At least if they do a runner they will be admitting guilt, which would be a first.
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Some might say that is what they did from Portugal 2 days after being made arguidos especially if they hadn’t pre booked :rolleyes:
January 26th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
393 christine
I dont think for one second we will hear the findings of the physchics, unless of course they see the face of george harrison!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Christine,
Not heard anything.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
395 mrs bountyhunter
me for one! they are so bloody transparent!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
MRS BOUNTYHUNTER SAYS
WTF They will look for sympathy , of course they must go and search for their little girl, now in distant Chile. Kate will be trying to cry on Sky, BBc assisted by the comical one, trying to soften our hard hearted ones. who will say no to this distraught loving mother ?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
390m duncan r
btw what is a soace?
m and a an empty glass
January 26th, 2008 at 3:46 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?
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Nobody knows then?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
390 duncan r
thankyou, must have been the vino!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Mrs Bountyhunter,
Nothing would surprise me!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
381 - wtf
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have edited your smiley for you.
Reason ;lol: did not work is because you preceded lol with a semi-colon and followed it with a colon.
To get the smiley to show you must have a colon before and after the text lol AND leave a soace between the words either side of the colons
January 26th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
387 mrs bountyhunter
do you think they are going to leg it?
January 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Bye Brandon.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
STEVE T
MRS BOUNTYHUNTER Too many co-incidences, I have a hunch they are up to something. My hunches are very often correct.
January 26th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
385 brandon flours
i will probably see you later, mr wtf will be in a one!
January 26th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
must go and make beef bourguignon for dinner
catch you later!!!
yes for the mo
havant scored first too
January 26th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
380
brandon flours
Liverpool are losing……
January 26th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
381 brandon flours
Really, bloody hell, mr wtf will not be happy, he is an ardent liverpool supporter
January 26th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
380 steve t
January 26th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
are you like the bloke from red swarf in corrie
2 havant - liverpool1