Piers Morgan in fiery row as Andrew Tate brands Amanda Holden bikini pics 'thirst traps'

Piers Morgan confronted Andrew Tate on his TalkTV show, reminding the 36-year-old of the particularly divisive criticisms he shared about Amanda Holden’s penchant for sharing photos of herself in bikinis on Instagram.

Andrew posted on X speaking about her snaps: “You’re a wife and a mother and far past a teenager. There’s no need for this post.”

Piers and Amanda have been longtime pals after rising to fame together in the British media and the journalist took the opportunity to question what Andrew found so offensive about the “harmless” images.

Andrew stood by his opinion, simply declaring “agreed” when Piers read out his comment but tried to argue that it wasn’t a misogynist view on the matter.

Doubling down on the line of questioning, Piers demanded: “Why can’t a woman of that age actually show off her beautiful body in a nice bikini.”

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The social media mogul declared that he wasn’t just hitting out at Amanda with the comments but believes no woman should be “thirst trapping on Instagram”.

He argued that either way, he hadn’t tried to be offensive towards the 52-year-old saying: “I wasn’t insulting her, I was reminding her that she’s actually such a fantastic person. I was reminding her of her worth.”

As his rant continued, Andrew labeled himself a feminist as Piers started interrupting him, confirming he is 36 years old and pointing out: “At what point do your antics, showing cigars and your ripped body in your compound with your security and your Bugattis. At what point does that become a thirst trap?”

With a gleeful smile plastered across his face, Andrew declared he would never stop being a thirst trap as Piers pointed out his double standards for men and women despite his feminist claims.

Backtracking on his claims, Andrew claimed it was a different set of circumstances behind his posts and Amanda’s “thirst trapping”, branding his own form of content as “peacocking” to show off his success.

In a hilariously heated moment, Piers interrupted Andrew’s explanation to point out that he doesn’t feel the need to share shirtless images at all despite also being successful, to which Andrew quickly quipped: “Maybe you should start.”