Dan Walker defends rival Piers Morgan in feud with Alan Sugar over coronavirus social distancing

Dan Walker defended Piers Morgan in a Twitter row with Alan Sugar over the topic of people going outside during the coronavirus lockdown.

In other news, Hell has frozen over and pigs are also flying. We never thought we’d see the day!

It all started on (where else!) Twitter, when The Apprentice star wrote a message lambating Piers’ criticisms of people who are seemingly flouting the rules of self-isolation and going outside to sunbathe.

‘I can’t for the life of me understand what Piers Morgan is on about in respect to sunbathing,’ Lord Sugar wrote. ‘If you are 10 feet away from the next person in the open what’s wrong with that?’

The BBC Breakfast anchor replied, questioning the Amstrad billionaire comments.

‘With respect, it’s about respect,’ Dan told him. ‘Look up Nero…this is the modern equivalent.’

Just what we love to see on a Monday morning – some parallels between our society today and the Great Fire of Rome…

With respect, it’s about respect. Look up Nero… this is the modern equivalent #StayAtHomeSaveLives

— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) April 5, 2020

Piers then re-tweeted Dan’s message, adding a thumbs-up emoji in a rare show of unity between the two breakfast show hosts.

Like we said, it’s something we never thought we’d see.

The Good Morning Britain host also called out Lord Sugar for his ‘shameful stupidity’ on the issue.

‘His behaviour over this crisis has been an absolute disgrace, especially for a peer,’ Piers said. ‘But when he actively encourages British people to go out sunbathing, I can’t just sit back & say nothing.

‘His reckless, shameful stupidity will kill people.’

This isn’t the first time Piers and Lord Sugar have clashed during the pandemic, with the GMB presenter previously scorning his mate for doing ‘f*** all’ to help.

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV. BBC Breakfast airs weekdays from 6am on BBC One.

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