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Barnaby Joyce Responds To Johnny Depp's 'Inbred Tomato' Jibe

Australian deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has responded after Johnny Depp joked that the ruddy-faced politician looked like he’d been ‘inbred with a tomato’ on Jimmy Kimmel.

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Joyce was the driving force behind the near-prosecution of Depp and his wife Amber Heard after they took their Yorkshire terriers Pistol and Boo into Australia without the correct documents, while the star was filming the latest 'Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie.

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He famously threatened to have the dogs put down if they were not immediately removed from the country, which has strict biosecurity laws.

Speaking about the incident on Kimmel’s US talk show, Depp said of Joyce: “He looks somehow inbred with a tomato.

“It’s not a criticism. No, I was a little worried. He might explode.”

Of Depp’s latest slight, Joyce responded: “I’m inside his head, I’m pulling little strings and pulling little levers. Long after I’ve forgotten about Mr Depp, he’s remembering me. Keep on advertising me, Johnny.

“I’m turning into his Hannibal Lecter.”

Depp and Heard were ordered to make an apology video, after Heard was fined but cleared of two breaches of biosecurity law in what became known as 'Terriergate’ and the 'War on Terrier’ in the press.

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While on Kimmel, Depp added that the script for the video apology, which quickly went viral, was written by 'an absolute genius’, and had been directed 'by an iPhone’.

He went on to say that he’d not watched it back because 'I didn’t want to kill myself’.

The clip was widely mocked, some likening it to a hostage video.

Depp himself mocked it during a recent press junket for new movie 'Alice Through The Looking Glass’, saying: “I’m going to do this everywhere I go.

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“I would really like to apologise for not smuggling my dogs into England. Because it would have been a bad thing to do.”

He also mocked Joyce at the Venice Film Festival last year, when asked if he was planning to take the terriers on a gondola.

“No,” he said. “I killed my dogs and ate them, under direct orders from some kind of, I don’t know, sweaty, big-gutted man from Australia.”

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