Piers Morgan is teasing an interview with the real-life 'Baby Reindeer' stalker. The breakout Netflix hit - created by and starring Scottish comedian Richard Gadd inspired by a traumatic, six-year-long stalking incident has inspired a flurry of headlines. Because Gadd pulled from personal experience to craft the true crime tale, many have attempted to track down the real people behind 'Baby Reindeer's' characters.
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00:00 Piers Morgan is teasing an interview with the real-life Baby Reindeer stalker.
00:04 The breakout Netflix hit created by and starring Scottish comedian Richard Gadd,
00:09 inspired by a traumatic six-year-long stalking incident, has inspired a flurry of headlines.
00:14 Because Gadd pulled from personal experience to craft the true crime tale,
00:18 many have attempted to track down the real people behind Baby Reindeer's characters.
00:23 The series follows Donnie Dunn, a struggling comedian who encounters a lonely woman at the
00:27 bar where he works. The chance encounter spirals as Martha is revealed to be a dangerous serial
00:32 stalker. Gadd took to Instagram to urge fans to stop the speculation on the real characters
00:38 because innocent people were getting caught in the mess. "That's not the point of our show."
00:42 However, Piers Morgan isn't listening, instead teasing a world-exclusive interview on Wednesday
00:47 announcing that he's booked a woman named Fiona Harvey who claims to be Gadd's stalker.
00:52 The post went viral with some questioning the moral responsibility of engaging with someone
00:56 who may be suffering from mental illness. Netflix responded to the hysteria during a UK
01:01 Parliament hearing focused on British film and television projects and featuring Netflix policy
01:06 chief Benjamin King. He told lawmakers reasonable precautions were taken to conceal the identities
01:11 of the real-life people who inspired the streaming hit. But he further noted, "Ultimately, it's
01:16 obviously very difficult to control what viewers do, particularly in a world where everything is
01:21 amplified by social media. I personally wouldn't be comfortable with a world in which we decided
01:26 it was better that Richard was silenced and not allowed to tell the story."
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