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JK Rowling deals killer blow in Twitter spat with Piers Morgan

By gillianfurmage
February 15, 2017, 12:15 pm Updated: February 15, 2017, 12:18 pm
Piers Morgan and JK Rowling
Piers Morgan and JK Rowling are still feuding (PA)

HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling craftily reignited her feud with Piers Morgan after sending out a tweet that wasn’t quite what it seemed.

The row began after Piers was criticised (in rather colourful language) by Australian comic Jim Jeffires on panel show Real Time With Bill Maher. JK Rowling responded to this by tweeting about how ‘satisfying’ she found Morgan’s dressing down on the show.

Her tweet kicked of a twitter war and many barbed insults were traded, with Piers calling JK a “liberal” and refuting her arguments and JK calling him a “celebrity toady”.

 

JK Rowling
JK Rowling (Ian West/PA)
After the feud has seemingly died down, Rowling took to twitter yesterday (on Valentine’s Day) and shared a sweet post that complimented her and her franchise. 

 

Asking to know who the writer of the piece was, she added: “I’d love to thank him!”

The flattering piece wrote about how successful she is, how influential she is to children, but that she doesn’t “play the celebrity game”.

Piers took the bait and retorted to the tweet saying Rowling plays the celebrity game ‘abusively and ruthlessly.’

In a hilarious twist, eagle-eyed Twitter users quickly spotted that the warm words were actually written by Piers back in 2010.

The piece was entitled ‘The 100 British celebrities who really matter’, and it was Piers who had described JK in such a wonderful way and placed her 97th on the list.

Piers, understandably, was not too happy about this and responded calling the Twitter user a “quarter-wit” and claiming that he knew all along that he was the author of the piece.