Cher makes thinly-veiled dig at Madonna in brutal resurfaced 1991 interview with Terry Wogan

A clip of Cher making a thinly-veiled dig at Madonna during an interview with the late Sir Terry Wogan has resurfaced.

BBC Archive took to Twitter on Wednesday to post the video, which was filmed in 1991, which they captioned: ‘#OnthisDay1991: Cher appeared on Wogan and had some pretty pointed things to say about Madonna!’

In the clip, Cher, 74, is grilled about Madonna, 61, by Wogan where she brutally says she’s ‘not beautiful’ and ‘not unbelievably talented’. 

During the interview, he innocently asks her: ‘Do you go jogging like Madonna to keep fit?’

To which Cher jokes: ‘Do you mean like my best friend Madonna?’

With Wogan replying: ‘I thought that was a subtle way to drag her in, you understand.’

Yet Cher doesn’t hold back her thoughts as she quips: ‘How about dragging her in by her hair!’

With Wogan joking that she doesn’t appear to be ‘keen’ on Madonna and Cher insisting that it has been ‘blown out of proportion’.  

The Believe hitmaker appears to go on to compliment the Like A Prayer singer but it soon turns into some thinly-veiled digs.

Madonna says: ‘When I was in America, someone asked me, it’s not like I go around saying how I feel. Someone said to me, “What do you think about her?” I said, “Well, I think she’s unbelievably creative.”

‘I’m amazed at the amount, in my day, I was pretty good at doing the same thing she’s doing but she does it so much better.’

She brutally adds: ‘She’s unbelievably creative because she’s not unbelievably talented, she’s not beautiful but she’s rude.

‘So this man said, “How do you feel about her?” and I said, “She’s nice, she’s creative but she’s rude.” I said a different word but they bleeped me.

‘I don’t have anything against her, I do respect that she goes much further than anyone should do. The interesting thing about her is she’s willing to do whatever she wants to do.’  

Cher appeared to reignite her feud with Madonna in 2018 where she was asked to answer questions within five seconds on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.    

The Believe songstress had to quickly name three singers she would like to participate in a duet with, and she replied: ‘Adele, Pink and …. and not Madonna!’

Ellen reminded Cher that the question was who she would like to collaborate with, to which Cher said, ‘Well, I took a little license.’ 

Cher previously explained her feud with Madonna in the 90s with Steve Kmetko.

She said: ‘There are lots of things that I respect about her. I think that she knows how to work the business like nobody I’ve ever seen before. There’s something about her that I don’t like. She’s…mean. I don’t like that. 

‘I remember having her over to my house a couple of times, because [Sean Penn] and I were friends, and she just was so rude to everybody. She acts like a spoiled brat all the time.’

Cher added: ‘And it seems to me when you reach the kind of acclaim that she’s reached — and you can do whatever you want to do — you should be a little bit more magnanimous, and little bit less of a c**t.’  

MailOnline has contacted Madonna’s representative for comment.