A feud has erupted between Scottish actor Ewan McGregor and media personality Piers Morgan after McGregor refused to appear on a program with him.
McGregor was booked to appear on the breakfast program Good Morning Britain but cancelled his appearance at the last moment when he learned Morgan was co-hosting the program.
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T2 Trainspotting: world premiere
Director Danny Boyle and actors Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle reveal how the sequel to Trainspotting came about at the world premiere of T2 in Edinburgh.
Morgan later accused McGregor of being a "pedophile-loving hypocrite".
McGregor was making the appearance as part of the publicity campaign for the Trainspotting sequel, T2.
In refusing to appear, the 45-year-old actor was protesting comments Morgan had made earlier about the global women's march which took place on the weekend.
"[I] didn't realise Piers Morgan was host," McGregor said via his social media account.
"[I] won't go on with him after his comments about [the] Women's March," McGregor added.
Was going on Good Morning Britain, didn't realise @piersmorgan was host. Won't go on with him after his comments about #WomensMarch
— Ewan McGregor (@mcgregor_ewan) January 24, 2017
Morgan, who writes a regular column for the Daily Mail, had criticised the march for bringing out "the more repellent side of feminism: the vile, crude, man-hating, violent, nasty side".
Morgan fired back at McGregor saying he should be "big enough to allow people different political opinions."
"You're just an actor after all," he added.
Sorry to hear that @mcgregor_ewan - you should be big enough to allow people different political opinions. You're just an actor after all.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 24, 2017
McGregor did not respond.
Morgan then upped the ante, writing a column for the Daily Mail's website, in which he accused McGregor of being a "pedophile-loving hypocrite" who holds Trump and Brexit voters "in utter contempt."
Morgan protested that "democracy" did not allow McGregor to ban or punish others if their political opinions happen to differ from his."
But then Morgan contradicted himself, encouraging his readers to punish McGregor because the actor's political views differed from theirs.
"Why on earth would you want to see any of his movies ever again?" Morgan asked.
"Perhaps everyone who voted Trump or Brexit should now boycott his movies?" he repeated.
In refusing to appear on the program with him, Morgan said McGregor "revealed himself to be a narrow-minded, stupendously self-aggrandising, anti-democratic little twerp."
He also criticised McGregor for his friendship with filmmaker Roman Polanski, who Morgan described as "a self-confessed and convicted child abuser."
McGregor and Polanski collaborated on the film The Ghostwriter.
Polanski was arrested for the rape of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in Los Angeles in 1977 and pleaded guilty to the charge of statutory rape.
Polanski was released from prison after serving 42 days and fled to Paris before sentencing; he has subsequently never returned to the United States.