Madeleine McCann: Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters And Rape

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”

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