Chris Tarrant responds to 'row' claims with Tyson Fury
Chris Tarrant joked he would pop Tyson Fury “with a lead pipe” on Radio X Breakfast this morning, in a playful exchange with his son Toby, who has been standing in for regular Chris Moyles.
Toby was keen to quiz his famous father over the claims a chuckling Tyson made on reality show At Home With The Furys, which Chris, 76, branded “complete nonsense”.
“This is typical of my dad, I take my eye off of him for one moment and he’s getting in a fight with Tyson Fury!” he joked.
Announcing that he had his father on the phone during the show, he exclaimed incredulously: “Dad, why are you starting a fight with the Gypsy King? What’s wrong with you?”
“‘I didn’t actually start the fight… in actual fact, there was no fight, there was no big row!” he fired back.
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Chris maintains that he only saw 35-year-old Tyson briefly in the hotel lift and has never formally met him, but he insisted that his comments had now “wound him up” and brought out the “warrior” in him.
“I just think he just wants cheap publicity out of me and I’m not having it,” he continued.
“I have a plan that on the night of [his next] fight, I’m going to hide behind his dressing room door, and when he comes out, I’m going to hit him with a lead pipe!” he added jokingly.
Talking of Tyson’s previous claims, he went on to add: “Of course, I wouldn’t pick a row with the biggest man on the planet. It’s complete and utter nonsense!”
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“If it was any normal bloke, and any normal boxer, or any other boxer I would say ‘He’s had too many blows to the head’, but nobody’s ever hit Tyson on the head!” Chris went on.
“He’s six foot nine, you can’t get near him!” he exclaimed, before suggesting that Tyson was simply after “publicity”.
He recalled that when he and his wife were at the luxurious Gleneagles hotel in Perthshire, which boasts three golf courses, a spa and Scotland’s only double Michelin-starred restaurant, he thought he’d spotted Tyson on one occasion.
“I’m vaguely aware that there’s a massive sort of mountain at the back of this very crowded lift, and I get out and the doors close, and I said, ‘I think that was Tyson Fury in the lift,'” Chris explained.
“I was in the lift for 30 to 45 seconds, [then] I go to dinner and I say to the waitress girl, ‘Just out of interest, is Tyson Fury staying in this hotel?’ and she says ‘I can’t tell you that.'”
Chris continued adamantly: “I went, ‘Well he definitely is then.'”
“I never spoke to him, I still never met him, so why? So weird. Is he trying to set me up for the next fight? Is he trying to rile me? It’s a bit of publicity for him and all that, but there’s a point where, you know, it’s starting to bring out the warrior in me frankly,” he concluded.
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