Two days before his $12 million book hits stores, ex-President Bill Clinton has already blown his stack at one TV interviewer who questioned whether his contrition over his affair with Monica Lewinsky was credible.
"Bill Clinton loses his temper with David Dimbleby during a BBC television
interview to be broadcast this week when he is repeatedly quizzed about his
affair with Monica Lewinsky," reports Sunday's London Telegraph.
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"The former American president, famed for his amiable disposition, becomes
visibly angry and rattled, particularly when Dimbleby asks him whether his
publicly declared contrition over the affair is genuine," the paper claimed.
Clinton is said to appear visibly angry during the BBC sit-down for a period of several minutes, in a scene that could disrupt the carefully crafted rollout for his megabucks memoir.
U.S. interviewers so far have handled the impeached ex-president with kid gloves during book interviews. CBS's Dan Rather praised the presidential tome to the hilt after his own sit-down with Clinton, set for broadcast Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."
But for sheer entertainment value, Rather's overwrought gushing is likely to pale next to Dimbleby's performance.
A BBC executive who witnessed the interview, which took place in a New York
hotel last Wednesday, told the Telegraph:
"[Clinton] is visibly angry with Dimbleby's line of
questioning and some of that anger gets directed at Dimbleby himself."
They eyewitness said that the ex-president's videotaped rage is not a momentary flash, but instead a "substantial and sustained" outburst.
Clinton's meltdown is set for broadcast Tuesday night on BBC's popular "Panorama" show.
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