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 5:32 pm
hi
jo
January 26th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
noseycow
he was on holiday
all men are selfish on holidays especially with friends!
maybe the holiday was a chance to make kate feel more like her old hotlips self!
January 26th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
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brandon flours Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
January 26th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
brandon - the only thing that doesn’t fit with your theory is: if maddie was G’s little princess and usurping K - surely he would have spent more time with her on their holiday? I can’t understand why she would have been jealous when he was happy for maddie to spend most of her time in the creche and then early to bed
January 26th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
482
bountyhunter Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
MRS BOUNTYHUNTER SAYS
JO Is Leonore Cipriano in a single or double cell, she must be feeling a bit lonely ?
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jajajajaja…they will become best friends and all,exchanging their views on bringing up kids,i guess.At long last,Ket will practice portuguese and learn to make fantastic tapas
January 26th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
chenier
sorry, thought you were having a pop about the alcohol
January 26th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Nosey Cow
I have always been uneasy about the hand holding (gripping). I mentioned that before on here but got shot down by someone who said I was unromantic!!!! Ha ha…
Think though that Kate appears (from what I’ve seen from you tube clips) that she is a very angry woman. IMO of course.
January 26th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Oh and the womans hour interview where she says she had no trouble sleeping at night a month after and was considering her new career in child care
compared to her health since she became arguido
January 26th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
do you think you could get a wii game where the boxing game has k and g heads on them? would sell like hot cakes imo
January 26th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
chenier - try slipping a £20 note to the nurses - you never know you might strike lucky
January 26th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Gerry played along out of guilt, knight in shining armour, and to save his career as they left them on chaplin night. So it was ALL their fault really. There for the grace of god etc…..
January 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
MRS BOUNTYHUNTER SAYS
I think Kate is scared of meeting Mr Amaral again.
January 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Can I remind you at this point of “clunk” and “tiny tears” and the spanish breakdown!
January 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
474
noseycow Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
wtf - chenier is having her alcohol delivered intra venousley
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Sadly not, though rumour has it that this is not a totally unknown event…
January 26th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Irene IMO - either K lost it when she wouldn’t behave/sleep/stop crying, K getting desperate because G expected her to control the children, or G lost it because she wouldn’t behave/sleep/stop crying. I tend to believe the later as I just can’t see G covering up for K.
note to team McC - just my opinion of course (am i still allowed to have one in this country?
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January 26th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
gerry prepared to go along with the cover up, as doesnt look too good to have a murdering child killer for a wife!
January 26th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I think Kate was fed up being left to take care of kids, only for daddy to carry on as normal, and then both Madeleine and he would be inseperable on his return.
Kate was jealous and started sedating so she could be princess again.
January 26th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
MRS BOUNTYHUNTER SAYS
JO Is Leonore Cipriano in a single or double cell, she must be feeling a bit lonely ?
January 26th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Or I wonder if Maddie witnessed something she was not supposed too?
January 26th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
475..wtf
One of mine too.
She is very involved but there will be a pecking order to be instigated
when the heat is turned on.
When “thieves fall out” type scenario, etc.
January 26th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Christine - yes siree - and in G’s job he’s used to being idolised by his juniors, he’s used to everything happening how and when he dictates, he’s used to having some control over life and death IMO allegedely etc etc etc etc.
Kate is cold because she has years to shut in her real emotions IMO etc etc
January 26th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
470
Matt. Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
468…wtf
I think Dr K needs to watch her back.
Team McCann are sharpening knives.
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I am sharpening mine…..
January 26th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
474 noseycow
:lol;
whats her problem, was it me? did i forget to include her in the round? Top up by the way?
January 26th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
463
noseycow Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
When K is strong enough - given enough time and space she may realise how she has been controlled and if she gets to be strong enough (it can take some women years) she will then come forward and confess what actually happened to maddie in PDL
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Yeah…portugues jails are a good place to get strong and realise your hubby had control over you……
I bloody hope it will take YEARS
January 26th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
470 matt
that is one of my theories, that they are going to drop kate in it to save themselves.
January 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
wtf - chenier is having her alcohol delivered intra venousley
January 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Nosey Cow
I agree with you. In all the footage or photos of Kate I’ve seen, she either looks totallly repulsed by, or terrified of Gerry. And remember the bruises on her arms around 4th May. Didn’t she have an injury to her face as well?
January 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
462 chenier
Do you want a glass of wine?
January 26th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
noseycow
I think Kates used to being perfect princess, and Gerry was her knight in shining, and everything was hunky dory, and then someone took her place.
January 26th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
468…wtf
I think Dr K needs to watch her back.
Team McCann are sharpening knives.