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Emily Maitlis and Sam McAlister are 'no longer on speaking terms after the ex-BBC producer accused the star of not acknowledging her role in securing Prince Andrew's car-crash Newsnight interview'
There is said to have been a falling out between journalist Emily Maitlis and ex Newsnight producer Sam McAlister who helped secure the interview.
The Netflix film Scoop is based on Sam's book while Emily is the producer of A Very Royal Scandal starring Michael Sheen as the prince that will air on Amazon. A BBC insider said at the time: 'There is internal disappointment because it is not the done thing to expose how you go about these journalistic practices and also because a lot of people who did a considerable amount of work on this show are being written out of the process in pursuit of one person's career. The Duke of York had been confronted by presenter Ms Maitlis about his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, with the prince being ridiculed in the media and online for his answers to some of her questions.
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