Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson reunite 16 years after punch up on WWTBAM
Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson have finally reunited 16 years after their fiery punch up.
The Good Morning Britain journalist, 55, came face-to-face with the former Top Gear presenter after Piers agreed to appear on an episode of Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? which Jeremy hosts.
The face off comes 16 years after their infamous punch up and saw Piers compare Jeremy to Jack Nicholson's crazed character in The Shining.
It all began back in 2004 at the British Press Awards after 60-year-old Jeremy punched Piers in the head after they had a falling out.
Piers, who is a former newspaper editor, said he was wracked with nerves ahead of the WWTBAM episode.
In his column for Mail on Sunday, Piers wrote: "He slouched into the green room with a massive smirk on his face. ‘Morgan, I can’t believe you agreed to do this!' 'Nor can I,' I grimaced.
"Well don’t worry,’ he grinned with the undisguised glee of a sadistic public executioner who gets a kick out of guillotining people, 'now you’ve been dumb enough to say yes, I fully intend giving the British public exactly what it wants…'
"Clarkson then cackled like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, which suggested he imagined – probably correctly – that the British public would want nothing less than me suffering a catastrophic, career-ending humiliation."
Welcoming Piers onto the show, Jeremy said: "Please welcome our first guest… who is a truly awful human being!'"
Jeremy also showed off his finger he broke when he punched Piers in the head, with Piers claiming he has a scar on his temple from the altercation.
Piers said their fight was when "two ego-crazed, rutting human stags, with a relationship laced in physical violence, finally clash on national television".
The fight at the time was branded the "Rumble in the (tabloid) Jungle" and Morgan later claimed Clarkson actually hit him three times.
Speaking during an appearance on Play to the Whistle, he said: "It was actually three punches.
"He permanently scarred me above my temple because he had a ring on, but the good news was he broke his little finger hitting my head because I'm that hard…
"I took his best three punches and then I said to him, 'My three-year-old hits me harder than that', which I thought was a good line."
He went on to insist he didn't hit him back over fears of losing his job at the Mirror, adding: "The reason I didn’t hit him was because I was at the British Press Awards and I thought I’d be fired.
"But I was fired three weeks later anyway so I kind of should have hit him."
- Good Morning Britain
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- Jeremy Clarkson
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