Sam Macalister: Last News

Princess Beatrice watched from the sidelines as her father Prince Andrew gave his disastrous, and now infamous, Newsnight interview in 2019. The current affairs show's producer, Sam McAlister, appeared on ITV's This Morning to discuss cinching the interview, which was conducted by journalist Emily Maitlis, and divulging all of its behind-the-scenes secrets.

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield appeared visibly surprised by some of the revelations by their latest guest on This Morning. The hosting duo were back at the helm of the ITV daytime show on Tuesday (July 5) when they were joined live in the studio by the woman who negotiated Prince Andrew's appearance on Newsnight.

A woman who organised Prince Andrew 's disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019 has claimed he was initially happy with how it went.

Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan has taken to Twitter to welcome a former colleague to his new talkTV show.The former ITV news multimedia producer tweeted excitedly about joining the outspoken media personality, 56, at News UK's TV channel after he left GMB in March last year.In view of his 7.9 million followers, the former ITV host welcomed his new colleague.Piers penned: "Welcome aboard, Meg!"The star was responding to a tweet from former ITV news producer Meg Cope who had shared her exciting news.She wrote: "In the coming weeks I’ll be joining @piersmorgan and his team as an Assistant Producer for his new global show with @NewsUK."Excited to make some gripping TV & can’t WAIT to get started!"Grateful for my time at @itvnews and wish my amazing colleagues all the best," she ended her post.The TV producer was soon inundated with comments of support from Twitter users, wishing her well in her new role.Sam McAlister wrote: "Congratulations! Great stuff xx."While Erron Gordon penned: "Welcome Meg!"Piers previously welcomed on board GMB's former series director Erron after he announced that he was joining the Life Stories host at NewsUK.The former newspaper editor penned: "The very best TV directors thrive off unpredictability, spontaneity & flying by the seat of their pants."Loved working with Erron because the more I tried to trip him up, the more he enjoyed it.Piers continued: "A brilliant talent and ferociously loyal colleague & friend."Huge loss for @GMB," he added.Erron worked with Piers on his show Life Stories, which started in 2009, and saw the outspoken media personality interview former president of the United States, Donald Trump.In a bittersweet post, Erron reflected on his time at the broadcaster,