Good Taylor Auerbach comes to court with a fresh haircut and wearing black and white, brave as a kamikaze pilot – and he is here to tell the truth. He is flush with adrenaline, itching to spill the beans, pumped for cross-examination.

Naughty Taylor went out on a bender with a potential interview subject for the television show on which he was working as a producer, wined him, dined him and organised Thai masseuses to attend to him on the company credit card.

Taylor Auerbach leaves the Federal Court in Sydney after giving his evidence on Thursday.Credit: Rhett Wyman

The potential interview subject was the former Liberal party staffer Bruce Lehrmann, who then and to this day denies raping his colleague Brittany Higgins in a ministerial suite in Canberra.

Good Taylor repented the day after his bender, emailed his bosses at Seven’s Spotlight program and offered his resignation. “I have let you down and let the show down,” he wrote. “Last night I spent thousands and thousands on something that had nothing to do with work.”

Naughty Taylor, when asked under cross-examination on Thursday to confirm that his employers gave him another chance after this episode, volunteers: “They offered me a promotion.”

Lehrmann’s barrister asks him to come again. “You say they offered you a promotion?”

“And a pay rise.”

A loud scoff shoots out from the back of the court, and Lisa Wilkinson – the television presenter whose original interview with Higgins is the subject of these legal proceedings – turns to smile. Those cowboys at Seven. It would never happen at Ten, where she is employed.

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Good Taylor Auerbach comes to court with a fresh haircut and wearing black and white, brave as a kamikaze pilot – and he is here to tell the truth. He is flush with adrenaline, itching to spill the beans, pumped for cross-examination.

Naughty Taylor went out on a bender with a potential interview subject for the television show on which he was working as a producer, wined him, dined him and organised Thai........

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