Everett: 'Morgan makes me run a mile'

Rupert Everett has admitted that he is still scared of Piers Morgan.

The actor walked out of Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2007 after coming under attack from Morgan.

Everett told the Evening Standard: "Piers Morgan has done an interesting thing in the last year or so. He obviously took some good advice, because being too nasty isn't right for a TV career.

"He's obviously after the Parky lot. Piers used to be nasty and tear people to shreds but now he does these interviews where he has taken that amazing thing of [Michael] Parkinson's, which was to say nothing funny or interesting and be loved for it."

He added: "I don't know if Piers can pull it off, though, because underneath that pink, soft exterior there is still the iron claw. I have been terrified of him since Celebrity I Am an Apprentice, or whatever it was called.

"It was like going back to the first day at public school. I could smell the disinfectant and the oncoming crowd of bullies. Whenever I see him, I just want to run a mile."