Bashir

Martin Bashir ‘helped’ Princess Diana with ‘an appropriate answer’ to infidelity, documentary claims

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Martin Bashir ‘helped’ Princess Diana phrase an ‘appropriate answer’ when discussing her infidelity during that controversial 1995 interview, an eye-opening new ITV documentary has claimed.  The second-part of The Diana Interview: Revenge Of A Princess, which airs on Tuesday at 9pm, alleges that the Princess of Wales received guidance from the interviewer in how to … Read more

BBC will hold independent inquiry into how Martin Bashir landed Diana interview

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The BBC has said it will hold a full independent investigation into how it secured the bombshell Princess Diana interview aired on Panorama in 1995.  The broadcaster confirmed that an external probe would examine how journalist Martin Bashir landed the famous chat with the Princess, in which she spoke candidly about her marriage.  The announcement … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: Callous, cruel and calculating, Martin Bashir poisoned Princess Diana’s mind

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The revelations by Charles Spencer of the cruel lies told to his sister Diana by the BBC‘s Martin Bashir in the autumn of 1995 have solved a mystery in our household. My wife Rosa Monckton was one of the Princess’s closest friends — that year, Diana became a godmother to our daughter Domenica — and … Read more

BBC KNEW Martin Bashir lied: How news boss confessed Bashir invented invoices to get Diana interview

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A devastating insight into how the BBC mishandled its sensational Princess Diana interview can be revealed today. An extraordinary cache of internal documents exposes how the back-slapping of top brass over their world exclusive gave way to panic – and an arrogant dismissal of the complaints over the 1995 broadcast. The never-seen-before dossier shows Panorama reporter … Read more

BBC probe Earl Spencer’s claim journalist Martin Bashir behind Princess Diana’s Panorama interview 

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The BBC was last night forced into a humiliating U-turn in the furious row over its historic interview with Princess Diana. The corporation said it would hold a fresh inquiry into claims from Diana’s brother that Martin Bashir secured the sensational scoop in 1995 through ‘sheer dishonesty’.  Charles Spencer says the journalist showed him forged … Read more

Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer sensationally exposes Martin Bashir letter

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Princess Diana‘s brother has accused the BBC of a ‘whitewash’ over faked bank statements said to have helped land a historic interview with her. In a devastating letter, Charles Spencer expressed his outrage at the institution’s ‘sheer dishonesty’ and accused Martin Bashir, who secured the sensational interview for Panorama in 1995, of ‘yellow journalism’. Earl … Read more

BBC says Martin Bashir is ‘seriously unwell’ with coronavirus

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Martin Bashir is ‘seriously unwell’ with coronavirus: BBC says journalist who interviewed Princess Diana 25 years ago is suffering ‘complications’ from the disease Journalist Martin Bashir is ‘seriously unwell’ with Covid-19 related complications The 57-year-old is currently working as the BBC News channel’s religion editor Illness comes amid renewed interest in his career-making 1995 Panorama … Read more

BBC’s Martin Bashir ‘misled Princess Diana’s brother Earl Spencer to secure Panorama interview’

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BBC journalist Martin Bashir misled Princess Diana‘s brother Earl Spencer to secure her 1995 bombshell Panorama interview, sources claim. Nearly 23 million tuned in to witness the Princess of Wales tell Bashir, ‘There were three people in the marriage,’ a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles. But Bashir engineered the scoop of the century by showing … Read more