Mark Latham dumped on Triple M’s Grill Team

FORMER opposition leader Mark Latham was dumped on radio this morning after calling a radio star a “f**kwit” during a live interview.

FORMER opposition leader Mark Latham was dumped on radio this morning after calling a radio star a “f**kwit” during a live interview.

The outspoken 54-year-old agreed to appear on Triple M’s Grill Team in Sydney after they discovered he had criticised one of their co-hosts.

Speaking to Triple M’s Merrick Watts on Tuesday, Latham poked fun at Grill Team co-host and TV star Gus Worland.

“I actually watched Gus’s Marathon Man show, flicking through Foxtel one night,” said Latham to Merrick off air.

Triple M’s Grill Team: Gus Worland (L), Matty Johns and Mark Geyer.

“Hooked into it on the basis it’s got to be the worst TV ever ... it lived up to expectations. It was f**king horrendous.”

After hearing the audio, the Grill Team convinced Latham, who is currently promoting his new book Latham at Large, to appear on the show this morning to chat to Worland directly.

And almost immediately, Latham again laid into the radio star about his recent Foxtel TV series.

“Fair dinkum, it was the worst TV in the history of the media,” said Latham to the Grill Team.

“Gus, I’ve been talking to Davey Gyngell down there at Channel 9 and we’re gonna put a proposition to you, you’ve got a lot of talent ... So Gyngell and I want to make you an offer to put on a new variety show, prime time ...”

And then the interview was dumped.

And Latham was not a fan.

A promo shot for TV show, Marathon Man.

After a few seconds of silence, the radio hosts revealed that they had to end the interview because Latham had dropped an F-bomb.

“He wanted to call the variety show, Gus Worland: Loveable F*kwit,” said co-host Matthew Johns.

In response to the on air diss, Gus Worland later issued a challenge to the former opposition leader.

“I want to put on a boxing match,” he said.

“Three rounds. I’ll take him on for charity after what he said.”