Dan Walker misses his breakfast TV rival Piers Morgan.
Dan Walker
Piers, 56, quit 'Good Morning Britain' earlier this year after refusing to apologise for remarks he made on air about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, but 'BBC Breakfast' star Dan admitted he misses the rivalry he had with Piers.
He told The Sun’s TV Mag: “We’re okay. I sometimes miss the back and forth - we had a little ding dong about Emma Radecanu on social media.
"Him just pontificating about how she should have acted and what was going on in her head, so I just asked him what he would have felt if she’d stormed off in a huff.
“I thought it was healthy for both programmes. I never shied away from a bit of competition and it’s good, it keeps you on your toes as well.
"I’m sure we’ll see him back on a screen sometime soon though. So I don’t miss it too much."
When asked if he would be interested in taking over Piers' job, Dan, 44, insisted he is very happy at the BBC.
He said: “I’m very happy doing what I’m doing!”
And Dan - who is fronting the BBC’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics coverage - revealed he is disappointed that COVID has prevented him from travelling to Japan.
He said: “We come on at 5am and I suppose you could call it Olympic Breakfast but there’d be literal news bulletins but it essentially is an Olympic programme, it’s just that it’s on at the same time as 'Breakfast'.
"We’ll have a bit of fun with it but yeah one of the reasons I was looking forward to going to Japan was that I didn’t have to get up early but unfortunately I do.”
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