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"I like to get to know people as people rather than footballers, because I know the footballer that we signed, and we had a lot in common, it was surreal," Beard told BBC Sport.

“Seeing my name printed below Michael Jackson and Madonna and immediately above Whitney Houston was surreal,” she writes.

It was just surreal and bizarre, and maybe that won’t fly in prime time or late night, but like “Red Eye,” our show now is as interesting and unpredictable as that show was.

Reporting here can often be a surreal experience.

Yet in extraordinary times the constant juxtaposition of the banal and the monstrous becomes surreal.