Boris Johnson has been criticised for his 'car crash' interview with Nadine Dorries on TalkTV on Friday night.
The former Prime Minister, who was replaced by Liz Truss and then later, Rishi Sunak, sat down with Dorries to discuss partygate, his trip to Ukraine as well as his new talent of painting cows.
Mr Johnson, 58, now a backbench MP who has trousered more than £1 million giving speeches since he left Downing Street, said he's enjoying his life post-PM by learning to paint the farmyard animals.
He told Ms Dorries, 65: "I’ve got a project which is to master the form of the cow." He later wants to master the horse.
At one point, he even called Labour leader Keir Starmer a 'crasheroonie snoozefest, the human bollard' while insisting the Conservative Party have a big chance of winning the next election.
Towards the end of the chat, Mr Johnson admitted his 'death row meal' would be bangers and mash. And Ms Dorries ended her interview with Mr Johnson by admitting she 'almost wet' herself from nerves.
Viewers were confounded by the hour-long programme, which took many random turns and took to Twitter to complain about it.
"Friday night car crash interview with Nadine Dorries," one user complained.
Another added: "Boris Johnson's latest output. He really is brimming full of sh** ffs. And Nads is gladly lapping it up..."
"Popped into #TalkTV - could only stomach 5 mins of Johnson being “interviewed” by Nads Dorries," one concerned user posted. "Really the two of them deserve each other - a political nightmare! She’s hanging on his every word."
Another said: "Johnson waffles about cows Nadine giggles. * cringe level raised to Defcon 1."
However, some viewers loved the chat and defended the former PM.
"Dang, I’ve missed Boris! So nice to have him back on our screens," a fan commented.
Elsewhere in the interview, Mr Johnson claimed anyone who believes he knowingly covered up illegal parties at No10 is "out of their mind".
The shamed former Prime Minister was forced to quit after a rebellion by his own MPs but said in the interview that he was acting within the rules.
Mr Johnson became the first Prime Minister in history to be sanctioned by police while in office after being fined for breaching Covid regulations, and he faces a probe by MPs into whether he misled Parliament.
He said: "As you know there’s a Parliamentary Committee looking into some aspects of this and I had better be respectful of them.
"But I’ll just repeat what I've said before, and I hope it's obvious to everybody, that anybody who thinks I was knowingly going to parties that were breaking lockdown rules in No10, and then knowingly covering up parties that were illicit that other people were going to, that’s all strictly for the birds.
"And if anybody thinks like that they’re out of their mind.”
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