Piers Morgan tends to rub people up the wrong way and isn't afraid to speak his mind - so he's obviously got a few ongoing feuds.
From Meghan Markle to Little Mix, Gwyneth Paltrow to Dan Walker, Piers has managed to clash with a number of celebs over the years, but one of his most bitter and nasty rifts is with pop sensation Madonna..
Bizarrely, the tension started over a bread roll throwing incident and has since spiralled out of control due to a number of other clashes over the years - leading Piers to claim Madonna is "an irritant in my life".
The presenter has previously labelled the legendary singer "pathetic", "embarrassing" and insisted she " doesn't know how to age gracefully".
Most recently, Piers slammed Madonna's "cringe" dominatrix-style outfit at last year's VMAs and last month claimed she's "so mean with money her purse has to be opened with chainsaws".
But where did this heated feud begin and why does Piers harbour such a grudge? The answer is a bread roll.
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Their beef started in the 90s, but it really escalated in 2001 when the pair both attended celebrity chef Marco Pierre White's 40th birthday party.
According to Piers, "obnoxious" Madonna, who was there with then-husband Guy Ritchie, took offense to late comic Bernard Manning's routine, so he launched a bread roll at her.
"Madonna is pretty awful. She never forgave me for throwing a bread roll at her at Marco Pierre White’s birthday," Piers told OK! Magazine. "She was just being really obnoxious, not just to me, but generally.
"There was only 40 of us at this dinner party and she got annoyed because Bernard Manning started being offensive and that wound her up.
"She was with Guy Ritchie at the time and he’d been laughing his head off… I just picked up a bread roll and chucked it at her!"
Piers claimed Madonna was "attention seeking" and boldly claimed her "15 minutes of superstardom has probably run its course".
As for Madonna herself, she has never actually addressed any of Piers' claims or hit back at the presenter, who banned her from his CNN show.
Just before he started hosting Piers Morgan Tonight in January 2011, Piers referred to the Queen of Pop as "an irritant in my life for 20 years".
He insisted the only way she would be allowed on was if she apologised to him live on CNN, but remained coy on the details of his anger.
"There is a story here. There’s no way you would pick Madonna out of nowhere," he told Access Hollywood.
When asked what she had specifically done to him, Piers continued: "Something has happened with Madonna, a few things have gone down between Madonna and I. There’s a few things have happened. She knows."
Piers claimed the pair had never really seen eye-to-eye and cited the bread roll, as well as an incident at the Cannes Film Festival involving a photographer and a bodyguard.
He also referenced an incident involving a pub where his brother Rupert was manager, which was owned by Madonna's ex-husband Guy Ritchie.
But it gets worse, as Piers explained: "You know the worst thing Madonna did to me? Madonna’s publicist once said to me, ‘Listen to me, Madonna is not pregnant,’ when I was running a newspaper. And I said, ‘Are you sure?’ She said, ‘Listen to me, Piers. Madonna is not pregnant.’
"The next day, they announced [the news] on a rival newspaper's website. There's a series of crimes."
In December 2016, Piers took great offence at Madonna's Carpool Karaoke segment with James Corden on his The Late Late Show.
After watching a clip of her twerking and revealing she once kissed Michael Jackson, Piers said: "I loved Madonna when she acted her age. You can't be 58 and prancing about.
"I want her to just put it away... my mother just text me, saying 'do not show that clip of Madonna in the car'... and she speaks for middle England."
Then in May 2019, Piers branded the popstar "grotesquely offensive" for appearing to wear a burka out in public.
He branded the singer "shameless" and called her an "attention seeker" for opting to cover herself head-to-toe in all black while at JFK airport in New York, accusing of "mocking" Muslims with her incognito outfit.
Taking to his Mail Online column, an angry Piers fumed: "She knew exactly what she was doing, because it’s the same thing she’s been doing for 40 years: shameless attention-seeking.
"Only this time, when I stopped laughing at the headlines, I suddenly realised that her latest publicity-grabbing move wasn’t actually very funny at all. It was actually grotesquely offensive."
Although he clearly holds the Material Girl singer in high regard as he declared himself as an A-list celebrity on the basis of having more Twitter followers than her.
In August 2020, one critic wrote: "I never followed you Piers. But there's a difference between thinking it's over and it's under control/ realising the country needs to get going or go bust. Btw are you an A list celeb?"
To which Piers proudly drew the conclusion by responding: "Well, I have three times as many followers as @Madonna, so...."
The following month, Piers launched into a furious tirade against Madonna on Good Morning Britain after she announced she would be taking the helm of her own biopic, focusing on her music and co-written with Academy Award winner Diablo Cody.
Piers gave fresh life to his feud with Madge as he branded her "pathetic" and "embarrassing" and even took a swipe at her relationship with Ahlamalik Williams.
He remarked: "When she did Holiday, she was the best popstar in the world. No question. Now it's just pathetic watching Madonna now. Pathetic. Everybody finds her pathetic and now we're having a biopic."
Not one to back down, Piers continued: "She's 62 now going on 20. The act doesn't work. It's embarrassing.
"She doesn't know how to age gracefully. She's trying to act the age of her boyfriends. I think the latest one's about - what is he, 18? They're always older than her kids, I know that."
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