Piers Morgan and Andi Peters shared a seriously awkward moment on Good Morning Britain as Piers shut down Andi for ‘fat-shaming’ him on live TV.
Competition compere Andi was talking about British pie week, when he started chanting ‘Who ate all the pies?’, with the cameras cutting to a clearly bemused looking Piers who had a face like thunder.
When he realised he might have hit a nerve, Piers lashed out, and slammed his co-star for hitting out on the sensitive issue.
He told Andi: ‘It’s actually really not acceptable anymore in the workplace. No.
‘You were talking the other day, you had your own complaints about the way workplaces operate, I don’t like being fatshamed by you, OK? It triggers my anxiety, it’s wrong.’
‘Except you’re the one that always backs fat-shaming as a way to get people to lose weight,’ Susanna then added, but Piers wasn’t finished.
‘You fill me with self-loathing, everything about what you just did is offensive, wrong, and I really feel you should apologise,’ he added.
‘That’s not what he says off-air…,’ Susanna then added.
Andi was also unwilling to back down, and decided to push forward with the gag, and asked him: ‘But my question to you is Piers, before I contemplate apologising… Do you like a pie?
‘I love a pie,’ Piers conceded.
‘Do you like all the pies?,’ Susanna added, causing him to burst out laughing.
While it looked like the tension was broken, Piers couldn’t help but get a little jab in himself about the comment before the moment was through.
‘If you are going to do the old fat thing, I wouldn’t wear such a form fitting top,’ Piers said.
Claws out, guys!
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.
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