Piers Morgan Gets Into Delightfully Snarky Twitter Fight With BBC’s Jeremy Clarkson

Host of the BBC2 show Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson started a delightful and seemingly unprovoked fight with longtime rival Piers Morgan on Sunday, after a swipe early this morning led to a drawn-out exchange over whose show had the most viewers and who was likely to get fired first.

Once upon a time, Clarkson punched Morgan, who was then the editor of the London Daily Mirror.

Sunday morning, perhaps angered by a photo of Morgan, sent out the following tweet, which was retweeted almost 24,000 times at this writing:

Things escalated from there, with Clarkson making reference to Morgan’s involvement in Britain’s phone-tapping scandal:

[h/t Jalopnik]

[Image via Mirror, Telegraph]

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