Royal prank call DJs speak out in first interview
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | December 10, 2012 15:302DayFM radio DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian, who have faced worldwide fury over the hoax, spoke publicly about the prank for the first time in a televised interview with Australia’s “A Current Affair.” A separate interview on rival show “Today Tonight” also aired Monday evening.
“There’s not a minute that goes by that we don’t think about her family and what they must be going through,” Greig said, voice shaking. “And the thought that we may have played a part in that is gut-wrenching.”
The DJs said that when the idea for the call came up in a team meeting, no one expected that they would actually be put through to the duchess’ ward.
“We just assumed we’d get cut off at every single point and that’d be it,” Christian said.
“The joke 100 percent was on us,” he said. “The idea was never, ‘Let’s call up and get through to Kate,’ or ‘Let’s speak to a nurse.’ The joke was our accents are horrible, they don’t sound anything like who they’re intended to be.”
“The entertainment value was in us,” Greig added. “It was meant to be in our silly accents. That’s where it was meant to end.”
The decision to air the prerecorded call was made by executives higher up the chain, the DJs said.
The call has sparked outrage across the globe, with the hosts receiving death threats and calls for them to be fired. Greig said she doesn’t even want to think about returning to the airwaves.
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