Amy Winehouse’s dad lashes out at Daithi O’Se and Maura Derrane on the Today Show

It got all kinds of awkward on RTÉ One’s Today Show earlier when Amy Winehouse’s dad, Mitch Winehouse, appeared to discuss about the Oscar win for ‘Amy’ - a documentary about her life.

A film that Mitch has been very vocal about disliking.

The well-known London taxi driver was interviewed by co-hosts Daithí O’Se and Maura Derrane via video link, and for his first Irish interview ever, it didn’t go too well.

Firstly, Maura asked Mitch what was it he specifically didn't like about the film and why he didn’t approve of the way his daughter was portrayed.

Mitch then asked the duo whether they had seen the film and after they admitted they had only seen extracts, he replied: “Well it’s difficult for me to explain then”.

Don’t worry, it gets worse.

Daithi then went on to question Mitch on why he had previously given the film-makers his seal of approval before Maura jumped in and asked: “Why did you decide to get involved in the documentary and give all this intimate footage if you were worried?”

“I’ve just explained, we were told we were in safe hands with the Senna people, that’s why we did it,” he replied referring to the 2015 documentary

“But why did you do it all?” Maura asked again before it all got a little ugly.

“Are you going to let me speak? You keep talking across me,” Mitch barked back.

“The film you say we gave to them, we didn’t give that to them. That’s on public record, all that stuff, all what you call ‘intimate film’, is on public record. It’s on the internet,”

He then abruptly reminded them that they hadn't asked him about the Amy Foundation - a charity set up to prevent drug and alcohol misuse among young people - before signing off with “watch the film”.

Ouch.