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Okay, Matt, when was the last time you were fired?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on here? This doesn't feel good for me.

I thought they told you.

Oh, no! David, joke about it. It's horrible. I mean, I have had rejections in my life.

I remember writing to Granada Studios as a kid asking to be on Coronation Street

and they wrote back a lovely, long, no.

I knew there was a deep sadness in your life. Well, channeling that, you will absolutely know what it's like

when you've been caught in charge of a massive illegal phone hacking operation that's industrial in scale.

Yes, it was the exact same feeling.

26th of January 2007, Wapping London.

News of the world editor Andy Coulson knows what's coming as he enters Les Hinton's office.

It's not good.

Les is news international CEO and he's watching TV footage of Clive Goodman and Glen Mulcare

being transported from court in police fans.

Private investigator Mulcare has been sent to prison for six months.

He's charged with hacking the phones of five celebrities.

He isn't a news international employee, so the company has been able to distance itself from his actions.

Clive Goodman was the royal correspondent for the news of the world.

But he's come good. He's told police he acted alone.

He was the only reporter at the paper who hacked phones.

Yeah, let's see how long that lasts.

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