article_snippet: Former Labor leader Mark Latham was dumped from a radio interview for an on-air rant that included calling Triple M host Gus Worland a 'loveable f***wit' and movie star Hugh Jackman a 'North Shore w***er.'
article_snippet: Mr Latham, who was opposition leader for 13 months from December 2003 and led Labor to lose the 2004 election, had been invited on to the station's Grill Team morning program to talk about Labor latest book.
article_snippet: An audio recording had earlier emerged of Mark Latham talking to another Triple M presenter, Merrick Watts, about Gus Worland's latest TV show,
article_snippet: Mark Latham wasn't losing any weight
article_snippet: , how's this fat tub going to run a marathon, fat ended up shoving tubes up Mark Latham a***.' '
article_snippet: Mark Latham criticisms led to The Grill Team - Worland, Mark Geyer and Matthew Johns - urging Mr Latham to come on Mark Geyer and Matthew Johns - urging Mr Latham and talk about Mark Latham book, Mark Latham at large.
article_snippet: Mark Latham did not back down from Mark Latham criticism talking directly to Gus Worland and Mark Latham colleagues. '
article_snippet: Mark Latham went on to take a swipe at Gus Worland's previous TV efforts focusing on cricket, but left Mark Latham harshest criticism for last. '
article_snippet: But Mark Latham was taken off air before Mark Latham could finish Mark Latham sentence.
article_snippet: Mark Latham was in to talk about Mark Latham book, which Gus called "rubbish"… after the ex-Labor leader slagged of the ex-Labor leader TV show, calling it the "worst television show in the history of the media". '
article_snippet: Gus called him a "failed opposition leader, a failed pollie" that "even Labor don't even care" about.
article_snippet: Mark Latham said of Gus Worland and Mark Latham best mate Hugh Jackman (pictured starring in the movie series Wolverine) 'all those north shore w*****rs', seriously, I'll knock all those north shore w*****rs' out of the ring'. '
article_snippet: Mark Latham grew up in Sydney's blue-collar south-western suburbs, and represented the area in Parliament for the seat of Werriwa.
article_snippet: Known for a brash, sometimes abrasive personality, Mark Latham allegedly broke a taxi driver's arm in 2001 during a fare dispute and is also remembered for a quite aggressive, in-your-face, handshake with John Howard during the 2004 election campaign.
highlights_snippet: Controversial ex-politician Mark Latham calls radio host 'f***wit'
  Told Triple M presenter Gus Worland
highlights_snippet: Controversial ex-politician Mark Latham labelled the acclaimed actor 'a North Shore w***er' 