Australian TV Host Gives On-Air Apology To Adele For Not Listening To Her Album Before Interview
Host of weekend sunrise, Matt Doran has given a very general, on-air apology to Adele after he seemingly appeared unprepared for an interview with the singer about new album 30.
Last weekend, it was documented that the Australian Channel 7 news reporter acknowledged to Adele that he hadn’t heard the album 30 — which has occupied the biggest week of 2021 for any album in the U.S. — before their chat, and as an outcome, Sony withheld their interview footage.
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“This is a story that has sparked a torrent of abuse and mockery from around the world and, if I’m being honest with you, the bulk of this savaging, I deserve and I totally own,” Doran expressed on the show this weekend, speaking to Adele and to the shows viewers “I flew to London to interview Adele, an unspeakable privilege and what was to be one of the highlights of my career. I made the terrible mistake of assuming we weren’t to be given a preview copy of this album because our interview was airing before it was released, and Adele’s album was the industry’s most prized secret.”
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He continued, “I made the terrible mistake of assuming we weren’t to be given a preview copy of this album because our interview was airing before it was released and Adele’s album was the industry’s most prized secret. The day after, after we landed in London, an email came through from Sony. It didn’t mention Adele but it did contain a link to her album. The genuine, dead-set, hand-on-heart truth is that I missed it, by an absurdly long margin, the most important email I’ve ever missed in my life.”