Michael Parkinson called Meg Ryan a ‘c**t’ after car crash interview

It’s nary concealed Michael Parkinson and Meg Ryan didn’t deed it disconnected during their difficult interrogation successful 2003 – but the seasoned chat amusement big truly fto rip off-camera.

The Hollywood prima appeared connected Parky’s amusement to beforehand her critically panned thriller In The Cut and their frosty speech became 1 of the astir memorable interviews from the presenter’s career.

It got truthful uncomfortable that Ryan virtually told Parkinson to ‘wrap it up’.

Sat adjacent to Ryan were Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, 2 of the astir talked astir duos connected tv arsenic hosts of What Not To Wear astatine the time.

Appearing connected Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett’s Waitrose podcast Dish, Trinny reflected connected having a front-row spot for the ‘iconic’ moment.

‘I bash retrieve thing precise specifically, deity remainder Mr. Parkinson,’ she said.

‘When we left, helium whispered successful my receptor and went, “God, wasn’t she a c***?”

Trinny backed up Parkinson, blasting Ryan for refusing to respond to elemental questions contempt being ‘paid millions’ to promote viewers to ticker her movie.

She continued: ‘We had done our interrogation and past they bring successful the main prima due to the fact that we were the warm-up act, you know, truthful usually they past person tons of clip and you mightiness beryllium capable to propulsion successful 1 question.

‘He was truthful hopeless that we threw successful rather a fewer questions conscionable to easiness disconnected the, um, hard enactment atmosphere.’

In 2021, Parkinson offered an apology to Ryan, admitting: ‘I wish I hadn’t mislaid my temper with Meg Ryan. I privation I’d dealt with it successful a much courteous manner.’

He told Radio Times: ‘I was rather evidently aggravated with her and it’s not my concern to beryllium aggravated towards the guests. I came crossed arsenic benignant of pompous and I could person done better.’

Ryan went connected to telephone Parkinson a ‘nut’ and compared him to a ‘disapproving dad’.

Parkinson died successful 2023, aged 88, aft a ’brief illness’.

Dish from Waitrose is disposable connected each podcast providers.

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