Finding Michael: Spencer Matthews ‘furious’ as Disney+ pull Everest documentary ‘hours’ before launch
05.03.2023 - 11:37
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Disney is reported to have pulled the plug on Friday’s launch of Finding Michael ‘hours’ before it was due to air. Reality TV star Spencer Matthews is said to have been “furious” about the decision.
It’s believed that the release of the documentary about his tragic mountaineer brother has been delayed because it shows dead bodies, The Mirror reports.
Finding Michael follows the former Made in Chelsea star as he embarks on a mission to bring home the body of brother Michael, who vanished on Everest in 1999.
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Michael had become the youngest Brit to scale the world’s highest peak but just three hours later, he had disappeared.
More than 200 of the 310-plus adventurers to die on Everest are still on the deadly slopes. And Spencer’s documentary, which took two years to film, is now being re-edited to cut scenes showing the bodies of climbers on the mountain.
Sources said Spencer, 34, who appeared on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 show on Friday, was angry about the sudden decision.
One said: “This was a real disaster. After endless viewings, two official screenings and a entire campaign building up to a release on March 3 it was decided with hours to go that footage of bodies might be deemed insensitive.
“Everest is often too dangerous to recover those who died in the death zone, and the film reflects that. The fact this was only raised with hours to go before the release – and public screenings – is astonishing.
“So the premiere date was just dropped . Meanwhile, Spencer is doing interviews in which he has to fudge the date.
“He was absolutely furious and there have been some very heated conversations this week. This has been two years of Spencer’s