Tears, Tantrums & Exploding Egos!

In London for the royal wedding, our biggest TV stars began sniping the minute the cameras stopped rolling, as rivalries ran riot.

If looks could kill, then jet-lagged Sunrise stars Sam Armytage and Edwina Bartholomew would have slayed anyone in their path when they arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport last week and found no-one to greet them.

“It wasn’t the best start to the week,” concedes one insider, who says Sam was furious when her driver wasn’t there to greet her and look after her luggage. “Even Eddy, who’s normally easygoing, was tired and angry.”

It only got worse when Sam, Eddy and David Koch arrived at the Pullman St Pancras hotel in London to find they were sharing the plush modern digs with their Today rivals, including Karl Stefanovic and Georgie Gardner.

Fortunately, Karl’s former co-star Lisa Wilkinson was put up somewhere else and their paths didn’t cross while she was in town reporting on the royal wedding for Ten.

You would think having our biggest breakfast TV stars holed up in the same hotel would be a recipe for disaster – and it was – but it was the Sunrise and Today stars fighting with their own co-stars rather than their rivals that had everyone talking.

CLASHING EGOS