Emily Maitlis has said she channelled DCI Kate Fleming from police drama Line of Duty as she grilled Prince Andrew in his car-crash TV interview.
The BBC Newsnight presenter, 49, said she wanted to use the “forensic approach” of Vicky McClure’s anti-corruption cop. The chat last November, in which she tackled Andrew on sex allegations and his friendship with paedo Jeffrey Epstein, has won two Royal Television Society Awards.
Emily said: "I was channelling DCI Kate Fleming. There’s something so calmly forensic about the way she does it. "It’s unemotional, calm, quiet, but you know she’s done her homework. "That was what I wanted.
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