A correction has been issued after it was incorrectly reported that a famous British actress found Prince Andrew “sexy and heroic”.
The Daily Telegraph issued both online and in-paper corrections following the error made in a report on Scoop, the drama documenting an insider account of Prince Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview.
A headline and picture caption were found to have incorrectly reported the views of Brit icon Keeley Hawes, who played the Prince’s aide, Amanda Thirsk, in the Netflix film released last week.
While providing media interviews ahead of the film’s release, the actress commented broadly on the “historical view” and public perception of the Prince.
But it was forced to correct the record after falsely claiming that she believed he was “sexy” and “heroic” in two incidences.
The Telegraph issued a correction for a headline that “may have given the impression” Ms Hawes believed the Prince was “heroic” and a picture caption printed in its newspaper – both on April 5 – reporting she found him “sexy and heroic”.
In the online correction, the paper said in a statement: “A headline ‘Keeley Hawes: it sounds disgusting now to say it, but Prince Andrew was heroic’ may have given the impression that Keeley Hawes considered Prince Andrew ‘heroic’.
“In fact, she was commenting on the historical view of him, not her personal view. We are happy to correct the record.”
The paper correction read: “A picture caption on page 1 (April, 5) reported Keeley Hawes as having found Prince Andrew to be ‘sexy and heroic’.
“In fact, she was commenting on the historical view of him, not her personal view. We are happy to correct the record.”
The paper correction was picked up by eagle-eyed Daily Mail diary editor Richard Eden, who publicised the statement on X, formerly known as Twitter.
In a post on his profile showing a picture of the clarification, he told his 121,000 followers that “Keeley Hawes doesn’t find #PrinceAndrew sexy or heroic, according to the @Telegraph”.
His post tickled several X users, who said they wouldn’t want those views attributed to them either.
One social media user said: “Ha! One can’t blame her for insisting on this correction.”
Another added: “Yikes! You certainly don’t want to be credited with those observations.”
