Bernie Ecclestone has announced that he will take a bullet for Vladimir Putin during a highly controversial interview on Good Morning Britain.
The former F1 star has joined Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway virtually from Ibiza where he first apologized for Nelson Piquet’s racist insult to Lewis Hamilton before talking about the Russia / Ukraine war.
“I will still take a bullet for him,” Bernie said of the Russian president. ‘I would rather it did not hurt, but if it did, I would still take a bullet for him.
“He’s a first-class man,” the sportsman continued. “What he is doing is something he believed was the right thing to do for Russia. Unfortunately, like many business people, he is like me, and we make mistakes from time to time. ‘
Bernie then turned his attention to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“I think if he had thought about things, he would have made a big enough effort to talk to Mr Putin, who is a sensitive person and would have listened to him and probably done something about it,” he said. continued.
Good Morning Britain is broadcast on ITV on weekdays at 06:00.
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