Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe takes brutal swipe at The Amazing Race rival Peter Helliar live on The Project: 'Your wife carried you the whole show'

Tensions roseate connected The Project connected Sunday nighttime arsenic Ian Thorpe took a sadistic swipe astatine his tv rival Peter Helliar during an interview.

The brace are competitors connected The Amazing Race Celebrity Edition this year, which wrapped filming successful June, pinch Peter's woman Bridget and Ian's friend Christian Miranda.

It seems nan Olympic swimmer, 41, still had a bony to prime pinch nan comedian, 49, arsenic he accused Peter of letting his woman Bridget do each nan activity connected nan TV competition. 

The power presenter tried to support things friends during nan interview, asking Ian what he thought of The Amazing Race section group to aerial correct aft The Project.

'I person to say, tonight's section for maine felt for illustration nan hardest time yet successful nan race,' Peter admitted to nan sports commentator.

'There's bricklaying, we're astatine precocious altitude, nan aerial is thinner, it was 40 degrees. Please show maine you recovered it arsenic difficult arsenic I did.'

Ian instantly took occurrence astatine Peter, calling retired nan scenes which saw nan power presenter opinionated backmost to fto his woman Bridget complete nan difficult task. 

'It was difficult, but mate I don't deliberation there's excessively overmuch that you do find difficult because I noticed that your woman was doing a batch of nan activity nan full measurement through,' he said.

'You cognize that building wherever they opportunity down each awesome man, there's a awesome woman, well, down Peter Helliar, there's conscionable a awesome woman.'

Peter tried to play it off, joking: 'Listen, it's true, I joined a awesome woman... but let's not talk her up excessively much. I dream she takes maine to nan Logies adjacent year, I really do.'

However, later successful nan segment, Peter tried to get a limb up connected Ian by revealing nan swimmer's teammate connected nan show, Christian, had to transportation Ian's container astatine 1 point.

'You're talking immoderate trash considering nan past episode, I'm beautiful judge I saw your mate Christian pinch your backpack connected his enarthrosis arsenic good carrying nan two,' he said.

'So if we're going to commencement this mate, you won't for illustration wherever it's going.'

But Ian already had a sadistic comeback lined up, saying: 'Mate, crippled on, crippled on. Your woman carried you nan full show.' 

Peter and Ian joined an all-star formed this year, alongside nan likes of Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Luke McGregor and Jett Kenny.

The Amazing Race will return to Channel Ten and 10Play astatine 7:30pm connected Monday night.