‘I caught Clinton reading Kama Sutra’

Emily Maitlis has claimed she caught former US president Bill Clinton perusing the Kama Sutra.

The new lead presenter of Newsnight noticed the reading material of the former commander-in-chief following a day of interviews.

Maitlis said that during a press trip she noticed that Mr Clinton was not reading the “cultured” history book she first thought, after she spotted him in a hotel gift shop.

Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, Maitlis said that the president was in fact clutching a copy of the ancient erotic text.

Describing seeing Mr Clinton in the books section, Maitlis said: “He goes straight to the books and I’m like, ‘Of course, the cultured man, he’s gone to read about the Empire’.

“I was looking and he picked up this book and I thought, ‘That doesn’t look like a history book’ and I looked a bit closer.

“I was like, ‘It doesn’t look like it’s got any text, it does look familiar’ – and I realised he’d picked up a copy of the Kama Sutra.”

Maitlis also spoke about meeting one of Mr Clinton’s successors, Donald Trump.

She said: “He came towards me and gave me this macho manly handshake. I was quite surprised because we’d always heard about the germaphobia and how he doesn’t like shaking hands.

“I said, ‘Oh I thought you had germaphobia?’ and he said, ‘No, not with you. I shake hands with you.”