Emily Maitlis receieved 'surreal' textual screech material from Dominic Cummings right thru row over Newsnight monologue

BBC presenter Emily Maitlis has revealed that Dominic Cummings texted her a message of make stronger amid the furore unleashed by her Newsnight monologue over his lockdown day out to Durham.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief advisor got right here below intense scrutiny earlier this yr for making the day out to the North from London to protect with his of us.

However Ms Maitlis sparked controversy with her summing up of the scandal on BBC’s Newsnight programme.

Introducing the cloak on May perchance perchance well also 26, the 49-yr-worn said Mr Cummings had “broken the foundations” and “the nation can note that, and it’s disturbed the Executive can no longer”.

The BBC later said the episode “did no longer meet our requirements of due impartiality”, whereas its head of reports, Fran Unsworth, said it belonged “extra on the op-ed online page in a newspaper”.

However talking to Tatler journal Ms Maitlis revealed that the Mr Cummings had “sent … a textual screech material of make stronger” over the row.

“It was high surreal getting a message of make stronger from him at some stage in the full loopy stuff,” she said.

The Newsnight presenter additionally said she had extra make stronger from viewers after the controversy than she did following her interview with the Duke of York.

“I have faith that was the supreme I’ve had – extra than Andrew, extra than one thing else. I was overwhelmed by it,” she said.

“I wasn’t expecting such a flood of heat.”

Ms Maitlis said Andrew “was very gratified” after their interview.

“He was truly so beneficiant with his time. He took us on a tour of the exceptional hall of Buckingham Palace, he identified the statues, the staircases and where the Queen has her audiences with prime ministers.

“He said to me, ‘Next time you come, we’ll talk about Prince Albert. He was the entrepreneur of the family’.”

However the presenter said she had no longer “grasped precisely what was in the interview till I carried out”.

Ms Maitlis added: “You’re so certain no longer to cross over a beat, to search the advice of with your self you haven’t ragged the horrible tone or bought one thing stupendously horrible, that truly you’re no longer sitting there grinning, thinking, ‘Hahaha! That’s excellent!’”

She additionally spoke about her friendship with Piers Morgan.

“I judge Piers as someone who’s extremely proper. I do know if I was in detention heart, Piers Morgan would come and note me,” the Newsnight host said.

“I don’t know if that’s an even component or a irascible component, however he’d be there. And I love the reality that I will be able to have faith a row with him without it affecting our friendship – I don’t articulate I’ve ever had dinner with him without it ending in a huge row.

“I have faith that’s an even component.”

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