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Fringey Mini: Disgraced British Andy's perfect pizza memories questioned · Journey to the Fringe

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  Was gonna give you a choice because I've just
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  been saving up all these mini ideas, but There's
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  one especially you'll know why you'll know why
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  as soon as I start reading it It just needs to
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  be read right now and without further ado Pizza
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  Express found no evidence Andrew visited restaurant
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  in Woking after infamous claim on Newsnight This
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  is from thesun .co Are they calling into question
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  his impeccable memory? No. For only that night?
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  You couldn't because that interview was so good.
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  Nobody would ever think he was lying. There must
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  be more to it. No, no, it's because they all
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  got sweated on profusely and couldn't leave.
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  So now you see why I couldn't not read this.
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  Pizza Express investigated whether Andrew Mountbatten
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  -Windsor actually visited It's Woking Branch,
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  that's how you say it, right? I've heard him
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  say it so many fucking times. I'm pretty sure.
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  Yeah. In 2001, after his infamous claim on BBC
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  Newsnight, the fast food chain held an internal
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  inquiry into the disgraced former Prince's alibi
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  after... I like that better than Mountbatten
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  Windsor. That's a good title. After he first
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  revealed the claim to BBC host Emily Matless,
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  the company found no evidence that Andrew was
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  there, but also couldn't say he had not not been
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  there, reports the BBC. Matless sat down with
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  the former Duke of York in November 2019 in a
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  TV chat that would become one of Britain's most
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  famous interviews. During the chat, Matless probed
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  Andrew on if he met Virginia Roberts -Dufry,
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  who claimed she was made to have sex with him
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  as a teen back in 2001 after being trafficked
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  by wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew
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  had quote no recollection end quote of meeting
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  Jeffrey and claimed it could not have happened
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  as he'd taken his daughter Princess Beatrice
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  to Pizza Express and Woking for a party on March
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  10, 2001. The surprising statement alongside
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  claims he does not sweat became one of the most
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  memorable and mocked moments of the interview.
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  Ask why he could remember something so specific
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  18 years ago the 66 year old said quote because
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  going to a pizza express in Woking is a very
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  unusual thing for me to do I've never been I've
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  only been to Woking a couple of times and I remember
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  it weirdly distinctly as soon as somebody reminded
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  me of it I went oh yes I remember that March
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  10th 2001 of course I've listened to this interview
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  so many times I can hear it in my head Chelsea
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  is not doing it justice go watch it again everybody
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  I inserted it in our last episode that he came
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  up on because we're a royalty podcast. The BBC
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  has now revealed an internal investigation into
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  Andrews alleged visit was held in 2019 in the
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  pizza chain. Senior management looked into the
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  legitimacy of the visit as they believed it was
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  in the public's best interest. The inquiry included
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  speaking to members of staff from the time as
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  well as searching through the record. The restaurant
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  chain has now concluded that it failed to find
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  any evidence proving the former prince's visit,
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  but it also was unable to substantiate anything
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  to show he was not in attendance. BBC Newsnight
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  also made, quote, extensive inquiries and, quote,
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  into customer or staff witnesses to the then
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  prince's attendance, but has failed to find anything.
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  Okay, so they couldn't find any minimum wage
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  staff from 25 years ago now at this point who
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  could distinctly remember seeing the Prince.
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  I love this because it's so memorable to him
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  because it's not a regular thing, but it does
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  work in reverse as well. Like people would remember
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  that if he did go in there. I'm sure they'd be
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  like, hey, it's this jackass. It's this really
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  weird sweaty guy. He's so sweaty. Why is he in
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  here? I just think that it works both ways, not
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  just, you know, for him. That's basically it
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  for the rest of it. It's just going over everything
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  that we already know. But that was just something
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  that I had to share with you guys. I didn't actually
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  realize that it said they also couldn't prove
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  that he didn't go in there. So we're really left
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  nothing. the better in this episode i really
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  feel like they called a lot of people in their
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  like mid to late 40s and were like why are you
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  asking me about a minimum wage job i had 25 years
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  ago i have no idea go away but at the same time
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  like you would know if prince andrew came in
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  right would you well i wouldn't because i didn't
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  know him until all this podcast basically i don't
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  know i don't remember many days distinctly from
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  my minimum wage jobs if you're in the uk like
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  the the royal family is some when you know, right?
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  No, that's not the UK. Isn't that in, like, the
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  Bahamas somewhere? Woking? No. Look at how it's
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  spelled and how he pronounced it. I have no idea
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  how it's spelled. Hold on. Woking Pizza Express.
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  This is the hard -hitting journalism that you
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  guys are here for, right? This is the questions
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  we need to ask. Zoom out. Zoom out. Oh, did you
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  find it? I can't find it. Oh, it's because...
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  Yeah, you're right. It is in the UK. Yeah. OK,
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  that makes more sense now. Yeah, so I feel like
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  because it's the Royals, right? And he probably
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  have security with them. That makes more sense.
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  At the very least, you know, even if you're a
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  minimum wage person that doesn't care, at the
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  very least, you'd be like, this guy has security
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  or something, right? Like why? Yeah. Yeah. Okay,
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  fair enough. But yeah, I don't think it matters
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  either way. Yeah, we just really didn't get anywhere
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  with this mini So that's unfortunate and that's
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  all so many questions to be answered And dare
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  I say British Andy's memory may be being called
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  into question. Don't you mean disgraced British
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  Andy? Yes That's way better we got 48 hours I
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  don't know. Just think about British Andy. Watch
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  that interview one more time. I can't recommend
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  it enough. Yeah, it's pretty good. Bye. Bye.