Bee Gees’ painfully awkward TV walk off – ‘You’re the t****r’

Over the years, a number of famous celebrities have walked out of interviews when the host has angered them. The most famous of recent incidents was probably Robert Downey Jr leaving Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy when the topic of conversation went from the movie he was promoting to his personal life. But one of the most notorious has to be when the Bee Gees left Clive Anderson’s chat show.On October 30, 1997, Clive Anderson All Talk invited Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb onto the show. Little did they know that his style of interviewing was going to be jokes at their expense that was way too close to the bone for the brothers. From the off, the host compared their high falsetto to Mickey Mouse and said the Bee Gees were ‘hit writers’ with ‘one letter shy’.What was at first taken as harsh banter soon became too much for the band. Clive called them ‘sisters’ and that they will ‘always be Les Tossers to me’. Bee Gees’ painfully awkward TV walk off – ‘You’re the t****r!’ blasted Barry Gibb at host (Image: BBC) Clive Anderson was making fun of the Bee Gees from the off (Image: BBC) The audience thought Barry Gibb was joking at first before getting up and leaving (Image: BBC)Clive previously told Express.co.uk: ‘I do quite like interviewing musicians so I thought interviewing the Bee Gees would be good fun, but for whatever reason we didn’t quite hit it off.  He admitted his ‘pitch was wrong’ and the segment went from ‘best to the worst in a few minutes….It was all a bit of a shame.’Barry looked back on the incident himself saying ‘I found the jokes hurtful.’DON’T MISSBee Gees movie: HUGE star lined up for Barry Gibb in new biopic [MOVIE]EXCLUSIVE: Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever confession ‘We had no idea’ [EXCLUSIVE]Bee Gee Maurice Gibb’s guitar on which he wrote Jive Talkin’ [MAURICE] The other two Bee Gees followed Barry Gibb off (Image: BBC)Barry told The Sun in 2016: ‘Interviews were often based on the negative, never based on the positive. And that’s one of the reasons we walked off Clive Anderson. It was just a barrage of inferred insults. And we were fans of Clive Anderson so that made me sad. I just snapped.’SOURCE