Early Career
Ferrari's father ran a news agency, Ferrari Press Agency, and Ferrari was keen to make a name for himself in the same industry. Ferrari was a news reporter on the Sunday Mirror in 1981 and has had many other posts in journalism: ShowBiz Reporter at The Sun and Editor of the paper's "Bizarre" gossip page, Features Editor of the News of the World's Sunday Magazine and Assistant Editor of the Daily Mirror. A friend of former The Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie, Ferrari joined him at L!VE TV where he devised such programmes as Topless Darts, the News Bunny and the weather presented by a dwarf on a trampoline.
In 1989, Ferrari was instrumental in setting up the Sky News channel, as the second person to be hired by Rupert Murdoch. Initially he was editor and then he was promoted to Vice President of News and Programming, of Fox TV in New York. Amongst the people that he has interviewed are Harrison Ford, Elton John, David Bowie and Arthur Scargill, and after interviewing Roger Moore on the set of a James Bond film for The Sun, appeared as an extra, a man standing next to a swimming pool, in Octopussy.
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