In the stark glare of her infamous 2019 Newsnight grill, Emily Maitlis once watched Prince Andrew insist he’d severed all ties with Jeffrey Epstein—yet now, resurfaced emails expose his casual sign-off to the convicted predator: “we’ll play some more soon!!!!”T

In October 2025, veteran broadcaster Emily Maitlis revisited her explosive 2019 BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew, expressing profound discomfort over a newly leaked 2011 email from the disgraced former royal to Jeffrey Epstein. The message, sent on February 28, 2011—just one day after the infamous photo of Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell was published—includes the chillingly casual line: “Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”

Maitlis, speaking on LBC radio and later to outlets like The News Agents podcast, confessed the phrase sent “a shiver down my spine” and made her feel “quite sick.” “It evokes an unmistakable chill of unease,” she reflected, highlighting how the jovial tone clashed with the gravity of Epstein’s crimes and the emerging allegations. The email also declared, “It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it,” directly contradicting Andrew’s on-camera assertion to Maitlis that he had severed all contact with Epstein in December 2010 during their Central Park walk.

In the 2019 interview, Andrew insisted his New York visit was solely to end the friendship honorably, claiming no further communication. Yet the leaked correspondence—surfaced amid ongoing Epstein revelations—proves otherwise, prompting Maitlis to declare: “We now know Andrew lied to me.” Rewatching the interview for the first time in years, she noted heightened inconsistencies, underscoring Andrew’s apparent entitlement and detachment.

The revelation has amplified scrutiny on Andrew, already stripped of titles by King Charles III in late 2025. Maitlis predicts the Epstein saga is “just the tip of the iceberg,” with potentially thousands of victims and dozens of enablers yet to face reckoning. For her, the casual “play some more soon” encapsulates elite impunity—playful banter amid predatory horrors.

As December 2025 DOJ file releases continue exposing Epstein’s web, Maitlis’s unease resonates widely, reminding viewers of power’s blind spots and the lingering shadows of untruths.