Sarah Ferguson walks out on her 60 Mintues interview. Picture: Channel Nine Source: Supplied

Bizarre ... an agitated Sarah Ferguson interviewed by Michael Usher on 60 Minutes / Pic: Channel 9 Source: The Daily Telegraph

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Channel 9 aired footage of Ferguson walking out on reporter Michael Usher in a promotion for Sunday night's show, calling it "the weirdest interview you will ever see", The Daily Telegraph reported.

Ferguson was shown demanding that footage be deleted before she left the room.

Her local manager John Scott - who flew to London with Usher and crew - was furious and rang 60 Minutes executive producer Hamish Thomson at 7am yesterday demanding the ad be pulled.

"He hasn't had the decency to get back to me and nor has David Gyngell, despite showing the Duchess in the worst possible light," he said last night.

"We had gone through all the questions and subject matter beforehand and filmed all the walking in the park footage before we sat down. She did walk out when she was ambushed - no, it was entrapment - but after cooling down she said to me, 'F ... them, let's do this', and she did, but it was a banal interview and her demeanour reflected that."

Ferguson was strangely shocked when asked to watch News Of The World footage of her offering to sell access to Prince Andrew, but Scott said it was unnecessary because she had seen it - and was happy to answer questions about it.

But Thomson was last night mystified.

"She agreed to talk about the issue, as she has already extensively done, so it certainly wasn't entrapment," he said.