'I feel like I have to do this’ Bianca Gascoigne on Al Fayed accusations
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Speaking publically about her experience for the first time, British model Bianca Gascoigne joins more than 60 women who have made allegations against Al Fayed since a documentary on the businessman who died last year.
On this episode, Niall Paterson is joined by Sarah-Jane Mee who spoke to Bianca, as we hear her tell her story. Plus, Niall speaks to barrister Dean Armstrong who is part of the Justice for Harrods Survivors team representing survivors.
NB. This episode contains reference to sexual assault and grooming.
Producer: Emma Woodhouse
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Neil Patterson here with the Sky News Daily. Just a warning up top, we are going to be |
| 0:05.1 | discussing in some depth the allegations made against the former owner of Harrod's Mohammed Al-Fayette. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm actually joined in the studio today by my old companion on the breakfast show at Sarah Jane Me. |
| 0:16.8 | Good to see you, S.J. The reason that you're here is that you've carried out an interview with Bianca Gascoigne, |
| 0:22.7 | the model TV personality daughter of the England international footballer Paul Gascoigne. |
| 0:27.2 | Now, she's waived her anonymity, as she claims to have been assaulted by the former Harrod's owner. |
| 0:33.4 | She's just one, though, of hundreds of women who've come forward. |
| 0:36.5 | But, of course, you've got to say this situation is slightly different |
| 0:39.7 | because she has a figure in the public eye. |
| 0:42.1 | For those who don't know, Bianca, just tell us who she is. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah, cast your mind back to the early 2000. |
| 0:48.1 | She was a Love Island winner back in 2006. |
| 0:51.3 | Yes, Love Island did exist in a form before the Love Island that we know now. It was very early days, much more innocent then. She was known as a bit of an it girl at that time, a girl on the party circuit, famous because of her dad, Paul Gascoigne, but she became a TV personality and a model in her own right from a young age, from the age of 18 onwards. |
| 1:14.4 | Most recently, she's been on the Channel 4 program, SAS, Who Dare's Wins. And she did really |
| 1:20.0 | well on that program, both physically and mentally. And she actually says her experience on that |
| 1:24.5 | program gave her the courage to speak up about her experiences |
| 1:30.2 | because she thought if I can deal with this mentally and physically, emotionally I can probably |
| 1:34.4 | now confront this. |
| 1:35.4 | So you've carried a long interview, a sit down, you know, as we call it. |
| 1:39.5 | And what often happens is we arrive with our sound recordists, our camera equipment. We get all set up and the door opens and then comes the interviewee. At that point, what were your impressions of her? Because you knew roughly what she was going to be talking about. You didn't know the detail. Yeah, so when Bianca reached out to us, first of all, we were very surprised. But we didn't have many details she if you know her you know her from |
| 2:02.7 | her tv and her modeling work she's a very confident young woman and she always come across that |
| 2:06.9 | way yeah and when she walked into the room i got that impression |
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