Beeb snubs Bea
Wedding won’t be live ‘after Andy scandal’
THE BBC will not be showing full live coverage of Princess Beatrice’s royal wedding.
ITV also refused to say whether it will televise the marriage – and royal experts suggested Prince Andrew is now so “toxic” it could even be held privately.
Andrew is said to have “lobbied the BBC” to show Princess Eugenie’s 2018 wedding live before it ended up on ITV.
Princess Beatrice’s wedding to Italian property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is expected to be “the last royal wedding of its kind for a long time”.
However the BBC said it will not offer extended live footage and will instead offer “news coverage of the wedding across our services”, rather than a live link replacing normal programming.
ITV, which got three million viewers when it covered Eugenie’s wedding to Jack Brooksbank on This Morning, refused to comment on the coverage for Beatrice’s nuptials “until our teams are fully back in place next week”.
Buckingham Palace has yet to confirm the wedding date and venue but it is expected to be in late May or early June so it does not clash with Royal Ascot. St George’s Chapel in Windsor has been tipped for the ceremony. Under normal circumstances, the
Andrew and Phoebe on set
FLEABAG’S Hot Priest Andrew Scott has reunited with his co-stars for a threesome.
He joined the show’s creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sian Clifford at the 20th annual American Film Insitute Awards in Los Angeles on Friday.
The trio rubbed shoulders with the likes of Brad Pitt and were all smiles on the red carpet after their hit BBC comedy received special recognition. national broadcaster is offered the rights to a royal occasion for free.
However, the BBC’s controversial Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal may have affected its decision. Beatrice could invite celebrity pals such as Ellie Goulding and Ed Sheeran to her big day.
But Royal author Phil Dampier said: “Andrew is so toxic at the moment, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s going to be a private wedding with a couple of photos released afterwards.”
Buckingham Palace said further wedding details will be released “in due course”.