Overview

• On July 1, McGovern broke her silence on ITV’s This Morning about a stalking ordeal she had never publicly discussed.
• She described an admirer who misread her TV greetings and social media posts as personal messages and followed her to public appearances.
• The situation escalated when the stalker obtained her parents’ address and wrote to her father asking for her hand in marriage.
• BBC security stepped in after the letter to her parents but no criminal charges were ever brought against the individual.
• McGovern channels the real-life ordeal into Deadline, her debut crime thriller due on July 3, centering on a broadcaster forced to comply with a hijacker’s demands.