
Mega Edition: Prince Andrew And The Debacle With The BBC (9/8/26)
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There were also warnings surrounding the images being captured during the interview, although those came primarily from the Newsnight side rather than Andrew’s advisers. Photographer Mark Harrison has said the production team instructed him to keep shooting because they feared Andrew might become angry with the questioning and abruptly walk out, potentially making any photographs of that moment historically important. Instead, Andrew remained remarkably upbeat. Harrison photographed him before and after the interview and later recalled that Andrew appeared pleased with how the session had gone, reportedly remarking afterward that he thought it had gone well. Those photographs became part of the story themselves, particularly images showing a smiling Andrew alongside a visibly more serious Maitlis. The contrast captured something that would become central to the fallout: while journalists and viewers quickly recognized the interview as catastrophic, Andrew initially appeared unaware of just how damaging his own words and the accompanying images were about to become.
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everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Prince Andrew and his disastrous BBC interview will go down in history as possibly one of the worst performances of all time. If they gave razzies for performances and interviews, this would be at the very top of the list. Well during that interview there was a picture that was allegedly snapped and according to sources at BBC and elsewhere, the picture is pretty embarrassing for Prince Andrew. So we were talking about what could this picture possibly be? And now there are some reports coming out of what that picture is. And today we have an episode dealing with that. Our article is from the Mirror. Headline? Prince Andrew laughed his head off in unseen picture from Car Crash BBC interview. This article was authored by Matthew Dresch.
A jaw-dropping photograph of Prince Andrew reportedly shows him in hysterics. Jaring his disastrous interview with BBC News Night Reporter, Emily Maetless about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it tells you everything you need to know about the man. Him laughing in a situation like this while under the microscope encapsulates everything that is wrong with this idiot. He truly thought that he was going to get up there and gaslight all of us. Get up there and turn on the old charm. Bro, you don't have any charm. You're not going to charm anybody. And the only reason anybody ever wants to associate with you is because you're the prince. If you were just a regular old Joe Schmo working down at the local grocery store, you think anybody would want to hang out with you, Prince Andrew? You're not a man of personality. You're not a man of intelligence. And you're certainly not a man of means.
But what you are is a callous pig. And the fact that you get caught in a picture, laughing hysterically while you're giving such a serious interview with such serious content, it just goes to show you that you are exactly what we thought you were. Prince Andrew reportedly laughed his head off during his car crash BBC interview about Jeffrey Epstein, a BBC picture that apparently shows the royal in hysterics has been described as jaw dropping. So when we were first talking about the picture, I was wondering what it possibly could be. I mean, what could you, what could you snap and get this guy caught up in while he's at the palace getting ready to give an interview, right? I thought it was a pretty vague statement. Oh, we have a picture. But if there's a picture of him laughing during all of this, again, the optics are terrible. And when you're somebody in a public position like Prince Andrew, you better damn well, but make
sure that the optics match up. Because if not, you're going to get hammered for it, especially when you're already under the microscope, the way the joe exotic of the Windsor family is. The photograph was taken during the Duke of York's disastrous newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis in 2019. Prince Andrew desperately tried to defend his relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein during the interview and denied claims he slept with Jeffrey Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts. And that's exactly what it was. It was a denial. He thought he was going to get up there and he thought he was going to be given a platform to deny what he had done and nobody was buying it. Nobody was down with it and everybody was disgusted by it. If he had anyone supporting him before that interview, those numbers dwindled significantly in the aftermath.
The Royal Reister reported 12 million pound out of court settlement with Ms. Roberts earlier this year after she filed a sex abuse lawsuit against him in New York. The settlement was not an admission of guilt on Andrew's part and he has always denied wrongdoing. Look, it doesn't have to be an admission on his part, okay? His behavior, in my opinion, anyway, is an admission of his role in all of this. An innocent man doesn't act this way. In fact, an innocent man is absolutely fired up and pissed off and ready to defend his name if his name's being dragged through the mud. You don't kick the can down the road for years and years and years and years. People have been saying you've done this for how long? How many people has Prince Andrew sued for libel or defamation? Oh, none. Oh, that's right. Because the dude couldn't prove it in court. Even Brettler and Marty Singer told all boy it was time to bail. So what does that tell you? Might not be an admission of guilt, but it's damn sure in the neighborhood.
Earlier this month, BBC photographer Mark Harrison said the picture of Prince Andrew laughing during his newsnight interview would embarrass the royals. He told the Daily Mail the photo has been seen by only a few people, but it would be a big deal for the royal family. There's a lot more from that day that is not yet in the public domain. And that's a lead. We all know what a lead is and they're trying to sell their content over at BBC. So of course they're going to pump it up, you know, put some air in those tires. And I'm all for it. If you have good content and you want to you want to have a lead here and open it up for further discussion. Great. Let's get to it. Let's see the picture though. I could see why the royal family wouldn't want to see it. I mean, let's be real. Prince Andrew laughing in the middle of this interview talking about sexual assault, rape, Jeffrey Epstein, human trafficking, Galein Maxwell, underage kids. That's the time to laugh. Now it's the time to have a big belly full of a laugh.
Probably not a good idea. A source told the son, people with filo was reckless for him to laugh during such a sensitive interview. Yeah, no shit. I mean, you don't have to know the Korum and you don't have to have been raised in Buckingham Palace to know how bad that looks. But he probably didn't realize the seriousness or consequences of laughing or how it would look on camera. It's always he didn't realize he didn't this. He didn't that. I mean, is the guy like mentally challenged or what? Because it sure seems to me like he's pretty slow. Maybe he should have somebody to take care of him. Maybe he should just be like put into the tower, the tower of London and kept under observation. So he doesn't blunder around anymore. You have to bear in mind that after the interview, he thought it had gone very well, only to be subsequently hit by a wave of negative reaction.
I have no idea how you could think that this went well. And I don't know how your people around you didn't say to you, bro, this was a disaster. We need to get ready to do some cleanup work. Because you're going to look real bad after all of this. Sure. Former News Night producer, Sam McAllister, could publish the unseen picture of Andrew in her upcoming book about the interview. The BBC interrogation is reportedly set to become a movie potentially starring Hugh Grant. The interview had disastrous consequences for Andrew, who shortly afterwards stepped down as a senior royal amid the huge public backlash. I've heard that Hugh Grant isn't going to be involved in this project after all. So I'm interested to see who they get to play, Prince Andrew. His attempts to defend himself against Miss Roberts claims in the interview were roundly mocked because he didn't attempt to defend himself. He attempted to smooth his role over and act like it was no big deal.
And act like him hanging out with Epstein had nothing to do with any of these girls getting abused. He refuses to see the issue here and the issue you dumb fuck is you. He claimed he went to pizza, express and woking on the day of one of her claims and also insisted he could not sweat. The royal also came under fire for describing his convicted pedophile pal Epstein's behavior as unbecoming. Imagine explaining Epstein and his behavior as anything besides sick, twisted disgusting and just saying it was unbecoming. Really? You know what's unbecoming? You, you're unbecoming. Prince Andrew. When Miss Mailless shot back saying unbecoming, he was a sex offender. Andrew replied, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm being polite. I mean in the sense that he was a sex offender. Like here you go, here's a shovel dig the hole a little bit deeper for yourself. Andrew also tried to defend the decision to stay at Epstein's house after the pedophile was
convicted of a child prostitution charge. All right, first of all, you can't be a child and be a prostitute. One of these papers going to add that to what they're talking about. As if it's just whole hum go about your business. Oh, there's child prostitutes. That's okay. Let's go to the bodega and get a ham egg and cheese or the fuck that should launch people into orbit seeing those words child prostitute. What is this? A year 765? He said it was a convenient place to stay. At the end of the day with a benefit of all the hindsight that one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do. Imagine staying the night at Jeffrey Epstein's after you know he's a convicted pedophile and then having the audacity to try and defend that decision. Oh, well, you know, I looked back on it now. It was the wrong thing to do. Yeah, you think. But at the time, I felt it was the honorable and right thing to do. And I admit fully that my
judgment was probably colored by my tendency to be too honorable. But that's just the way it is. Imagine saying this. Oh, you're you're you're honor dictated that you had to stay the night over at the diddler on the roof, South. Huh? What sort of twisted, broken ass honor system do you live by? Epstein took his own life allegedly while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019. A spokesman for the Duke of York declined to comment. Oh, I'm sure he did. I am sure he did. So we were wondering what that photograph might have in store for us. And it looks like it's a picture of dumbass laughing like he has no cares in the world. When in fact, he's under the microscope for being involved in one of the largest human trafficking rings we've seen. And this moron thinks it's the time to laugh that my friends tells you everything you need to know about the joe exotic of the Windsor family. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at bobby kapuchi at protonmail.com.
That's be oh bby capu cci at protonmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter at bo bby underscore capu cci. The link that I discussed can be found in the description box. All right, what's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein chronicles. So there's a newsnight photographer who claims that he has a picture of prince Andrew that would rock the monarchy if it was ever made public. Now what the hell kind of picture could he possibly have? We've already seen the picture with prince Andrew having his arm around Virginia Roberts with Maxwell in the background. So what else could this guy possibly have that would make the monarchy get rocked? Well, let's jump into this article from the Daily Mail and let's find out. Headline newsnight photographer claims to have picture of prince Andrew that would rock the monarchy if it was ever made public. This article was authored
by Emily Prescott and Katie Hind. A photographer working for the bbc during prince Andrew's car crash newsnight interview claims to have taken a shocking picture of the royal that would shake the monarchy if it ever became public. Now what sort of picture could you possibly get during this interview? Did prince Andrew show up in his chownies or something? Dude showed up in a pair of uh bikini bottoms. What kind of picture could you possibly get? That would make rock the monarchy. Mark Harrison declined to reveal what he captured but said it would embarrass prince Andrew and the royal family if it were released. It is understood that the duke insisted the picture never become public but Mr. Harrison hinted that it may feature in a forthcoming film about how the bbc secured the interview. A dramatization producers may feel free to recreate their own version of the jaw dropping image. So a lot to one pack there. We know about the movie coming up um
called scoop about the prince Andrew interview and uh Hugh Grant that was allegedly tied to it but he came out and said that no that he has nothing to do with it. So we'll have to see who they cast for it but I'm guessing it's gonna be a pretty explosive movie right? Pretty interesting. You can count me and look put the pre-sale tickets on sale. I'll buy some now. Point of the story is I'm definitely going to see it. A source close to the newsnight interview who has seen the original photograph said that if if it became public it will be shocking especially if it's decontextualized. What could it possibly be? Now I really don't have any idea. So those of you listening out there shoot me some emails and tell me what you think this picture might be that'll be so embarrassing. I mean they took the picture at the palace. He was there with Beatrice and Amanda Thursk so I don't know exactly what he could have been doing that could have been captured in photo
photographic form but according to the um photographer here he has something our jaws dropped to the floor when we saw it. It would cause Andrew much embarrassment and imagine how high the bar has to be to cause him embarrassment after everything that has happened. All right. What now I really need to know what this picture contains. We saw the picture of him with Virginia and it's more shocking than that. As just stated the bar is pretty high for us to be shocked when it comes to the joe exotic of the Windsor family. The Duke effectively became a pariah following his catastrophic interview with Emily Maetless about his relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and claims which he always has denied that he had sex on three occasions with sex trafficking survivor Virginia Roberts. You mean Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts right? So this guy Prince Andrew certainly a
pariah. There's no doubt about that. I don't think there's any sort of discussion that could dispute that but if this picture is this explosive don't you think that the BBC should just put it out and not wait and tease people for the big release in the movie. Mr. Harris in an award-winning portrait photographer said of his shot it has been seen by only a few people but it would be a big deal for the royal family. There is a lot more from that day that is not yet in the public domain. All right we could look at this two different ways right? We could look at this as them having the goods and get excited about getting to see those goods eventually or we could say to ourselves are you just trying to promote for your new movie and if you are that's cool I'm totally fine with it but you know don't be disingenuous oh there's so much more that the public hasn't seen well why not why hasn't the public seen it the source added it's the kind of thing which would make the public
drop their cornflakes it is definitely not what Andrew would want want out there and apparently he insisted that it remained secret it was not one of the shots the BBC released so there's a lot here why is the BBC letting Prince Andrew dictate what's released and what's not you know for all the credit we give the BBC for this interview they haven't been at the forefront here of going after Andrew we have to give a nod of the cap to the daily mail and the sun and you could call them tabloids they are but guess what they were right about Prince Andrew they were right about Jeffrey Epstein they were right about Bill Clinton they were right about Golan Maxwell so you got to give them their credit and they've been all over this story since jump street but BBC well we all know how BBC has protected people like Jimmy Savile in the past so what would make us think that would be any different this time around I feel the same way about the BBC as I do about the
other legacy media organizations there is of course a chance that it will will at some point come out for all to see perhaps if the price is right of course the movie about the interview is happening so that is a possibility oh the price is right again it's always about the money right if the price is right the price is right the price is right well how much how much are you charging to get this picture and let's crowd fund it I got the first couple hundred bucks towards it let's do this I mean what does that even mean if the price is right so you're telling me you're gonna try and make more money off of the suffering of these survivors how about just release all the information you have if you have information if you have a picture it's just like that mark doogan guy mark john doogan or whatever the hell his name is the guy that said he had a bunch of videotape and this that the other thing and certain people bought into it right what did I tell you from jump street dude has nothing he has guangio not a nothing and once again proved to be right wasn't it there's so many people
my point here is there are so many people involved with this case with this story that are just so pell bent on turning it into a financial windfall for themselves that they don't really care about the survivors now it's okay to make some money right you're you're allowed to make some money I have no problem with that but when the whole entire thing is about money and securing that back and not about getting justice for the survivors that's when I have something to say about you and it certainly looks like the bbc is trying to you know make a few bucks here when the reality is as a news organization you should just be releasing this stuff to the public filming starts on scoop in november based on a new nonfiction book by former newsnight producer sam mcalister about how the bbc secured some of its landmark interviews including the bombshell encounter with andrew at Buckingham palace on november 14th 2019 and look i'm all for the movie right any more information
we can get that we can pick through and put the reconstructed bones back together i am all for it that's why you never hear me get too fired up about these documentaries or shows like uh the one that was just on stars about galaine maxwell not great right but again if it opens the door for some people to see what's going on and get fired up about what's going on or what has one on then i'm all for it and when it comes to making money like i said look that too everybody got to eat right nobody should be doing shit for free but the bbc trying to profit on the back end three four times look you're a news organization let's see that picture in february andrew settled the sexual assault case miss robberts filed in the u.s. under her married name for an undisclosed sum under the deal the prince made no admission of guilt oh well that might be the case but let me see a show a
hands out there of people who think he's guilty oh that's right i can't see any hands that are down oh so we all think he's guilty okay that's cool reality though he didn't have to take any guilt he didn't have you know his record wasn't showing that he's guilty but in the eyes of the public and the eyes of society as a whole there's nobody more guilty than this scumbag and again remember it's not just the enabling while that's gross and scummy as well andrew is directly related to the actual abuse and that's a whole different level for me once you're involved in the actual abuse or accused of that you're a whole different kind of scumbag and if you got a picture bbc that's gonna embarrass this scumbag further let's see it the princess spokeswoman declined to comment on the photograph last night and the bbc did not respond to her request to do so well folks there it is the story about the photograph that they allegedly have that can embarrass prince andrew
even further what that photograph is i have no idea but if you have an idea why don't you shoot me an email send me a message on twitter so i can get clued in to what you know all right folks that's gonna do it for this episode if you'd like to contact me you can do that at bobby kippuchi at proton mel dot com that's bobbcapu cci at proton mel dot com you can also find me on twitter at bobb y underscore capu cci the link that i discussed can be found in the description box what's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein chronicles recently we heard from the producer who was responsible for setting up the prince andrew interview with bbc and her name is sam mccalister and she had some pretty interesting insight to offer well in a new article from
the irish mirror we're getting some more details from her about what exactly what went down and how prince andrew had this idea that he did this great job after this interview whereas the rest of the world who witnessed it who watched it who listened to it they came to a different conclusion for the most part and this interview was the beginning of the end for prince andrew folks no doubt in my mind that this was the beginning of the end how many times have people said open your mouth and insert your foot because that certainly is what prince andrew did and he's going to pay for it for the rest of his life and i look at it as karma almost right why are you giving an interview to the bbc before you even speak to the fbi what are you really trying to accomplish you're not trying to help the people who are abused obviously you're trying
to save a little bit of face and frankly these people have been allowed to save face for a way too long in fact these people have been so protected folks let's remember that abc and amy roebach quash to an interview with virginia robberts that had all the goods on these people in 2015 so all of you folks out there who didn't know much about this story and might have heard just little tidbits and decided hey there's not enough out there i have to go and find my own information well you can thank the legacy media for failing at their job to inform you correctly because they've had all this information even longer than i have but they sat on it they refuse to give it to you all because they didn't want to lose access to people like the joe exotic of the wings or family and could there be anything more absurd who the hell cares if you lose access to these sick disgusting people the idea as a journalist is the whole people of power accountable and to
educate the rest of the citizens that's why it's called the fourth estate and that's why the media has given such great privileges but they failed big time here folks 100% without a doubt failed not only failed you but more importantly it failed the girls who were abused because of this story could have gotten out earlier how many girls would have avoided this fate and i'm never going to let the legacy media live it down today we have an article like i said from the Irish mirror and headline print sandry was a bomb waiting to go off as fresh details emerge from his disastrous interview this article was authored by teresa goteen martines and michelle cullin sam a callister who is responsible for setting up the duke of york's explosive interview in November of 2019 has written a memoir scoops in which she detailed the bizarre event so if you were her
why wouldn't you parlay this into something write a book write a story do the circuit you know make a few bucks from it i say good for sam a callister she was the one who set this all up she was the one who put it into motion so she should definitely be the one to get the nod in the credit you see a lot of the a lot of these times the journalist gets the credit right but behind the scenes it's the producer the field producers who are setting all of this up finding people to interview figuring out topics and then these high paid news readers that you see on tv Rachel maddow shan hanity the rest of these boobs they just get up there and they parrot whatever their producers find out or figure out and they get all of the all of the alcalades they get all of the paths on the back and more most importantly they get all of the money when in reality it's these producers that are doing all the hard work so people like sam a callister when they're able to double down and make a few
dollars on the stuff that they did by flipping a book or something like that i say go for it it's hard enough trying to carve out a chunk when you're somebody who's involved in the media or creating content so if there's a money making opportunity for you and it's based solely on your work especially you should definitely jump at that appearing on this morning to discuss the unforgettable appearance of Andrew on the flagship program which some speak about his friendship with convicted pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein missed miss miss mccalister was asked by ITV presenter holly willaby whether she thought the duke 62 regretted agreeing to the interview look i certainly didn't work on getting the interview with prince andru here but i'm pretty sure it's right up there in his top five regrets of all time right along with hanging out with Epstein well maybe that isn't a regret after all he had a chance to say that and he didn't so who knows
what his biggest regrets really are but this has to be at the top of the list right given this interview outing yourself for a complete moron for the whole entire world to see before it was just people who were paying attention to the royal family right a lot of you out there follow the royal family and stuff you all knew that prince andru was an absolute boob frankly until the Jeffrey Epstein story i had no idea who he really was besides the prince of england i had no desire to research him i didn't care i really just didn't care about him or anyone in the royal family for that matter and i still feel the same way when this saga closes you know i really have nothing else to say about the royal family honestly it's just i have bigger problems i guess you know i always talk about how my yard is if my yard's dirty i can't talk about my neighbors so i have my own problems here in the united states to worry about i can't worry about you know the royal family but prince andru's bichass oh yeah bro you're on the radar forever now and as long as you stick
around and you keep hanging out with the royal family and trying to make your way back well people like me are going to make your life miserable and the collateral damage unfortunately for you and the royalists is going to be the royal family she replied i think he was a bomb waiting to go off he wanted to say something he wanted to vindicate himself reports the express now i know that seems ludicrous now but nobody thinks they're going to do a bad interview he thought he would explain himself and he thought this would all go away so i suspect if he went back he would still do an interview but i doubt it would be with himaly and i doubt it would be with newsnight oh i doubt that as well he'd probably go and do the interview with the guy that got all of those Maxwell family interviews whatever that dude's name is over in england the guy that was crowing about how Maxwell's innocent and this is all a setup the blob blob blob blob blob blob blob
whoever that clown is i don't even remember his name but that's probably the person he would have went and had the interview with or maybe he would have set it up with one of his boys in new york mr. clogs himself george stepan opolis maybe katie kirk weren't they all at prince andru's little shware dinner that jeffriepsteen through through forum and again i don't know about you folks but me personally i've never been to dinner with one child abuser never mind multiple in january the duke of york was stripped of his military titles in the face of the legal battle over accusations by virginia robberts 38 mr. robberts said she was coerced into sexual encounters with andru in 2001 by epstein and his longtime co-conspirator general all around scusbag fellow child abuser glaine maxwell on three different occasions andru who was always denied the allegations against him and march agreed to pay a multi million pound sum with no admission of liability to bring the
civil sexual assault case to a close it's funny how everyone's so cautious when they talk about andru as well you know what i'll say it i wish the royal family would sue me because i have news for you we're going all the way to discovery i would sue i would so i would go all the way to discovery with these people so i don't know what all these journalists are so scared about oh i don't want to slander him how can you slander a scumbag like this at this point a man that was willing to stand on the sidelines well abused girls suffered a man that according to virginia took part in the abuse himself as part of the settlement which is not an admission of guilt the duke vowed to demonstrate his regret for his association with epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking and by supporting its victims this is so ridiculous it's as ridiculous as putting a line maxwell in danberry with other victims of human traffickers as if
that won't be triggering to them but this is crazy prince andru is going to become this fighter against human trafficking the consolar of widows the friend to orphans the patron saint of lepers that's what he is all of a sudden please miss me with the bullshit please but this did not save the prince's reputation which virtually died as the newsnight interview was broadcast miss mccallister said she still can't believe some of what the royal set on camera she couldn't believe either that the interview was eventually going to happen she told miss willaby and philips uh showfield uh showfield who who would say yes to being on newsnight when you're accused of the things you're accused of of there i never for a second believe that this negotiation would be successful yeah me either how in the hell would prince andru ever agree to this it is so bizarre that this dude would agree to this it's just i don't even be nowhere
to begin the producer went on to explain that princess be a trist whom andru invited to the final negotiations made the difference between yes and no hey look his daughter is doing the right thing she wants to believe her dad right i want to believe my dad i want to believe that my dad's a good man how many of us believe our fathers are superheroes almost so of course if someone saying this about your dad you're not going to believe it right and you're going to say to your dad hey dad just go go clear the air go get on the record and tell these people what's up i know i'd be pushing for my dad to tell the truth and i'm sure that's what his daughter was doing here the dukes eldest daughter was a real curveball for the production team miss miss miss mccallister said miss mccallister explained i turned up to the negotiations a little bit brassy and prince andru said oh by the way i have brought someone with me i thought it had to be a lawyer and then round the corner princess be a trist appeared when asked how she dealt with the princess being there the
producer answered i asked her tentative questions as she was just looking at her dad look it has to be a bit uncomfortable right you're about to blast this dude with a bunch of serious questions about sexual abuse and his relationship with a notorious pedophile and he brings his daughter so again not be a trist's fault but prince andru once again trying to use his children as a shield and real men do not bring their family into these sorts of matters that's for damn sure real men don't find themselves in these sorts of matters but here prince andru is and well a real man he is not all right folks that's going to do it for this episode if you'd like to contact me you can do that at bobby kapuchi at proton male dot com that's be oh bby c a p you c c i at proton male dot com you can also find me on twitter at b o bby underscore c a p you c c i the link that we discussed can be
found in the description box what's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein chronicles so prince andru's dumbass is back in the news and we're hearing from one of his pals a lawyer who is a defamation lawyer named paul tweed who said he advised prince andru about speaking to bbc and giving that newsnight interview he told prince andru that it was an absolutely terrible idea but like usual prince andru well he knows better the queen also told him not a great idea buddy but of course andru thought he was going to get up there and gaslight everybody and tell the whole world that he was an innocent man and instead it was the opposite reaction wasn't it everybody took a look at that interview and said to themselves what an absolute ski vats this dude is he didn't offer any bit of evidence he didn't offer anything that would change my mind anyway about what we have learned about this dude and besides a bunch of nonsense coming from surrogates and people
around him there's nobody that's serious that's talking about prince andru making a comeback or anything like that that's all just fantasy land stuff that his camp floats out there you know the four or five people that are still around them they float that out there and they see what happens what's the reaction going to be but the reality for prince andru is the party is over he's never coming back he's never going to be welcomed back in the polite society and most certainly not as a representative of the english people today we have an article from the dailymail.com headline I warned prince andru it was a bad idea to agree to the infamous newsnight interview Duke of York's lawyer pal says this article was authored by Vanessa Allen and Claudia Joseph you have to be one dumbass moron to think doing that interview is a good idea there was never a point in time when that interview should have even been a thing for prince andru the answer should have been
no thank you all pass and if you're innocent or if jeffrey absdeen was blackmailing you or something you should have went to the authorities and sat down with the FBI and spilled the beans you didn't do anything like that what you did was you were treated behind your mom's skirts. prince andru was warned it was a bad idea for him to discuss his links with disgrace finance here pedophile jeffrey absdeen on newsnight a friend revealed yesterday lawyer pal tweed said he advised the Duke of York against speaking to the BBC about his links with the convicted pedophile and then told the senior aid is he mad no way no no no he said andru ignored it his vice and made his mind up to tell his version of events to the broadcaster and when you have a friend of yours who's a lawyer telling you this a good lawyer and you know not somebody you're paying but a good lawyer who's just a friend and they're advising you not to have this conversation on national tv
it's probably a good idea to listen to what they're saying and if not well you only have yourself to blame and prince andru once again has made a cage of his very own design that he's living in this man has created all of his own problems nobody created these problems for him nobody told him to pal around with absdeen nobody told him to be a general all around dickhead he chose to do all of that just like he chose to ignore the good advice of his friend here appal tweed and do the interview the disastrous 2019 interview and its fallout effectively ended andru's role in public life the Duke admitted he had visited absdeen shortly after the billionaire finance here pedophiles released from jail for soliciting underage sex and said that was the wrong decision yeah you think the wrong decision the prince of england a prince of the blood going to hang out with a convicted pedophile sleeping on his couch breaking bread with him and doing Lord knows
what else i think it's safe to say that that ranks right up near the top of bad decisions of all time he said he did not regret his association with absdeen as it had some seriously beneficial outcomes and gave no apology to absdeen's victims no he didn't he sat there and acted like he was being victimized or something like he was being wrongfully targeted bro everything you did with your boy absdeen everything you did with all of the other undesirable scumbags you were hanging out with you have to know at some point was gonna come home and those chickens were gonna roost but when you're somebody like prince andru and you have these kinds of narcissistic traits you don't see that for what it is you don't see that there's a problem with what you're doing because guess what you can never be wrong right you're always in the right on prince andru i've never been reprimanded i've never been punished i've never been told no so why should i be told no now
and that's the way prince andru has always lived his life and thankfully he had a nice dose of reality during this interview when basically a bucket of cold ass water was dumped on his head and he was told it was time to wake up but unfortunately he seems to still be sleepwalking through life the interview is now at the center of a two-part channel for documentary andru the problem prince the program includes insights from the news night team which film the interview journalist Emily Mailless and producer Sam McAllister lawyers for one of the absdeen survivors and andru's friends mr. tweed a defamation lawyer and longstanding friend of the duke said he was told about the plans for an interview a month before it was filmed speaking to andru as a friend he said look that would not be a good idea sir he's he then got a call from andru's then chief of staff Amanda thirst saying the duke had decided to do the interview and we know that Amanda
thirst glossed her job as well she's no longer working with the prince who the hell knows what she's up to but she got canned in the end as well anybody who was okay with andru doing this interview should be fired and look like the rest of you i'm over the moon that he did it anytime one of these clowns wants to get on tv open their big fat yaps and expose themselves i'm all for it but as far as he's concerned and as far as his camp is concerned oh i'm sure there were many nights of people staying up with a jitta freaking out that this idiot was going to do this interview and when you have a good friend of yours like paul tweed telling you bro you're making a big mistake you should probably listen mr tweed told the channel for documentary i said is he mad no way no no no that's a bad idea you should not do it Amanda just said look paul i've got to go i'll call you later the phone was put down abruptly and that was it so instead of taking the advice of
his lawyer friend mr tweed here he's taking the advice of all of the yes men that are around him and that's the biggest problem when you're surrounded by yes men and nobody has the courage to ever say to you look you're acting out of line you're talking out of the side of your neck you're being stupid well you're just gonna go on and continue to be stupid and you know what they say right play stupid games and you win stupid prizes and prince andru is the king of winning stupid prizes so obviously the duke for better or for worse had made up his mind he was going to do it the duke made that decision on his own against most advice mr tweed said andru was a very decent straightforward individual but believes he had been very naive in his dealings with Epstein oh give me a break it's always naive this naive that vaughan ghoul naive he knew what he was doing and he chose to chill with Epstein even when Epstein was outed so i don't want to hear shit about oh he's naive he didn't know who Epstein was he didn't know what Epstein was up to everybody knew
he said the relationship was totally ill judged totally inappropriate and he believed Epstein had set up a notorious photo of himself with the duke in new york central park in 2010 we know that's not true either we've heard from the photo the photographers who took the photo who said they just happened to see this situation unfolding and we're in the right place at the right time andru's camp though they floated the idea that this was all a setup Epstein had served an 18-month sentence for soliciting sex from an underage girl in florida and had been released from prison just months before andru visited him in new york he was later found dead in his prison cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges so your boy gets out of jail right for sex offense and then you the prince of england decide you're gonna fly across the pond and go stay at his house and then you're gonna tell us you did all of that because you wanted to tell him you didn't want to be friends anymore that's your story that's the narrative you're sticking to no wonder your
friends didn't want you to do that interview mr. tweed who has represented andru's ex-wife sarah Ferguson in civil litigation said the effect of the newsnight interview on the duke and his family has been horrendous but believed he could return to public life saying i would never say never in any case well must be smoking mushrooms because there's no way prince andru is ever coming back to public life unless of course he provides some evidence that shows that his accuser is not telling the truth you have that evidence let's see it but until you can provide something as far as evidence is concerned shut up and go back to the stable and muck the shit in the newsnight interview andru denied claims from one of Epstein survivors virginia robberts that she was trafficked to have sex with him in 2001 when she was 17 he told miss maitless he did not remember meeting miss robberts and he was at a birthday party at a pizza express and woking on the day she said that
they met him going to a pizza express and woking is like bill clinton going to your local pizza hut it's not going to happen he also denied her recollection of him sweating heavily as they danced out a nightclub in central london and insisted he had been unable to sweat after an adrenaline overdose during the fall cleanse war meanwhile there's tons of pictures of dumb dumb over here sweating through a shirt andru paid a reported 9.6 million pounds settlement to miss robberts after she launched the civil lawsuit in New York accusing him of sexual abuse although he continues to deny any wrongdoing miss robberts lawyers cigarette mccauley said the newsnight interview gave her a road map to tear them apart in the civil claim 100% again i've said it from the beginning and i'll continue to say it folks prince andru is his own worst enemy all right folks that's going to do it for this one all of the information that goes with the
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