Dan Walker has branded Piers Morgan a “numptie” after the presenter accused him of “milking” his recent bike accident.
The former BBC Breakfast presenter shared a selfie of his bloodied face on social media after he’d been hit by a car last month.
During the event, Walker also took aim at his long-standing rival referencing his on-air spat with GMB weather presenter Alex Beresford in September 2021 about his ongoing criticism of Meghan Markle.
Morgan then left GMB following a backlash to the incident, moving to the newly formed channel TalkTV.
Joking he was “up to my eyeballs” on painkillers and “lost all my inhibitions”, Walker said: “To give you an idea of my mental state, let me put it this way: if a weather presenter were to question me in any way, shape, or form, I’m liable to storm off stage in an enormous huff.
What a laugh 😂
— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) March 2, 2023
Interesting idea of taking a lesson on bitterness from a fella who has written article after article attacking a woman who had one drink with him & thought he was a numptie 😬
We missed you last night.
You should have come ❤️ https://t.co/A63DRJEErJ
“I might even go as far as to start a new TV channel based entirely on my ego, which no-one will watch.”
As expected, the 57-year-old didn’t take kindly to the comments, and used Twitter to air his frustrations, branding Walker “bitter”.
Morgan tweeted on Thursday: “If I were Dan Walker, and I’d been kicked off Match of the Day & BBC Breakfast, then washed up on Channel 5 daytime, and only got press these days by falling off a bike, getting a few grazes, and milking it like I’d survived a terror attack, I’d be this bitter too.”
Not one to let things lie, Walker retweeted Morgan’s comment and replied: “What a laugh.
“Interesting idea of taking a lesson on bitterness from a fella who has written article after article attacking a woman who had one drink with him and thought he was a numptie.”
Sarcastically signing off his tweet, he wrote: “We missed you last night. You should have come.”
The former Good Morning Britain star has made repeated mention of the time he and Markle went for a drink in 2016 on the night before she met Prince Harry, with Morgan claiming Markle “ghosted” him after the interaction.
