ITV deletes THAT explosive interview between Lady Victoria Hervey and Susanna Reid which saw Prince Andrew’s ex brand his sex accuser a ‘con-artist’ and a ‘liar’ during inflammatory Good Morning Britain appearance
ITV has axed footage of an explosive interview with Prince Andrew‘s former girlfriend after she launched a libellous attack on his sex accuser.
Lady Victoria Hervey, who dated Andrew in 1999, provoked outrage after branding Virginia Roberts a ‘con-artist’ and ‘liar’ during an inflamatory appearance on Good Morning Britain.
Presenter Susanna Reid was forced to cut the interview short amid a series of attacks on Ms Roberts by Lady Victoria.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the seven-minute exchange has been cut from the online edition of the programme on ITVX.
Ms Roberts, who now uses the married surname Giuffre, claims she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York at the behest of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Lady Victoria Hervey, who dated Andrew in 1999, provoked outrage after branding Virginia Roberts a ‘con-artist’ and ‘liar’ during an inflamatory appearance on Good Morning Britain
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the seven-minute exchange has been cut from the online edition of the programme on ITVX. Ms Roberts, who now uses the married surname Giuffre (middle), claims she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York (left) at the behest of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell (right)
Andrew has repeatedly and strenuously denied the claims.
Lady Victoria was invited on to GMB on Thursday to discuss whether charity work can rehabilitate his reputation.
But during heated exchanges, Lady Victoria described Ms Roberts, who was sexually abused by Epstein, as a ‘liar’.
And in a further attack, Lady Victoria claimed Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in a US jail, was convicted of ‘some things she did not do’, adding: ‘A lot of these girls are liars.’
Ms Reid responded: ‘I’m going to bring the interview to an end because you cannot smear victims of sex trafficking who have already been through hell.’
The axeing comes as further proof emerged this weekend that the infamous picture of Prince Andrew with his arm around 17-year-old Ms Roberts is genuine.
Last week, this newspaper revealed a bombshell picture of the back of the original photograph showing a date stamp that proves it was developed at a branch of Walgreens, a US pharmacy chain, on March 13, 2001 – three days after it was alleged that Ms Roberts was forced to have sex with Andrew.
Now, an analysis for the MoS by experts at Acume Forensic, a leading digital forensics firm, has found no evidence that the image had been faked.
‘After our preliminary assessment of the image, we believe that this is a genuine digital photograph of an original film photograph,’ Stephen Cole, technical director at Acume, said last night.
