Adele interview bungle leaves Australian TV reporter ‘mortified’ and reportedly costs station $1m

This is the most important email I have ever missed,' Seven's Matt Doran says after failing to listen to singer's new album 30

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A mortified" Australian TV reporter has tried to explain how he bungled an exclusive interview with the singer Adele about her new album.

The host of Channel Seven's Weekend Sunrise, Matt Doran, and a crew flew to London for the chat, which reportedly cost A$1m to secure and would have been Adele's only Australian interview. After Doran conceded during the interview that he had only heard one track from her latest work, 30, the interview was canned.