Good Morning Britain presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid brought a heated debate to the panel this morning as they discussed trophy hunting.
Steve Jones, the president of the Safari Club in London, arrived to defend trophy hunting, and the culture surrounding it.
But Piers simply wasn’t having it as he brought up the case of Cecil the lion, who was infamously killed after its owners were paid £50,000.
But Steve quickly hit back to say: “What I came to say are there are far worse examples: human encroachment, cattle farmers, poisoning.”
But Piers went on to ask: “Why do people go to Botswana or Africa and kill wild elephants or lions?”
To which Steve flippantly replied: “Well they are hunters.”
The pair then began furiously bickering over the his answer, with Piers yelling: “That’s not hunting!”
Eventually the host shouted over Steve: “Rather than you conducting the interview could you answer the question?
“Why do British people need to go to Africa and bring back lions and elephants to hang up?”
“Its because that’s what they enjoy,” Steve said.
Which was not enough for Piers, saying: “That’s enough? so they enjoy it?”
Steve was not happy with being spoken over, however, as he began saying: “You’re cutting me out!”
To which Piers yelled back: “You’re cutting me out because your answer was ‘because they enjoy it!’”
Later in the debate Piers asked Steve: “Would you like it if I tracked you down after the show and put you up on the wall?
“Maybe I’d like to spear you in the back!”
He went on to conclude: “I tell you what: you can flash your little smug grin all you want.
“I feel sorry that there are people in the country who enjoy this.”
Steve merely responded: “I’m not smug!”
Adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes chimed in to announce: “We have to stop people participating in this sport. It is cruelty to animals.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
