Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson settled their long-standing feud by drinking themselves “into oblivion” prior to filming a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? celebrity special.
The Good Morning Britain presenter previously claimed the former Top Gear star once hit him in the head three times at an awards ceremony in 2004, beginning a public war of words between them lasting many years.
While Piers has admitted he and Jeremy haven’t exactly “kissed and made up”, they “declared peace” during their boozy evening out – although still had a “tense” time while filming the ITV quiz show.
He said on Good Morning Britain: “It was as tense as you would imagine with Mr. Clarkson and I.
“We didn’t kiss and make up, we sort of bear hugged.
“We had a big night out at my local pub, where we sort of drank ourselves into oblivion and declared peace after a 10-year feud.”
Piers previously claimed Jeremy broke his own finger during their awards show altercation, and told viewers they can expect to see the offending digit during his Millionaire episode.
He said: “It was a fascinating encounter. It’s fair to say the banter is off the charts, as you could imagine.
“I think at one stage he actually shows viewers his gnarled finger, which he broke hitting my head. That’s how hard that head is.”
Piers will appear as a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? over the Christmas period, where he is hoping to win money for the Scotty’s Little Soldiers charity.
In his column for the Mail On Sunday, Piers said Jeremy had been in disbelief he had signed up for the ITV quiz show, which he started hosting in 2018.
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.”