Adam West was mourned by millions when the TV "Batman"
passed away on June 9, 2017 — but costar
Burt Ward was covering up
some ugly battles when the former Boy Wonder praised their “special friendship for more than 50 years!”
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Burt, who fought crime at Adam's side in his role as Dick Grayson on the hit '60s show, reunited with Adam for 2003's "Return to the Batcave," but the TV-movie required the two to make up over Burt blasting his old pal in his autobiography. Burt revealed to
The National ENQUIRER why he took off the gloves and blasting Adam in his 1995 autobiography "Boy Wonder: My Life In Tights" — after his old costar had turned diva at Robin's wedding!
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The '60s idol told The ENQUIRER that the two hadn't spoken since July 1990, when Burt asked Adam to be the best man at his wedding to Tracy Posner in Southern California. "Adam told me he'd fly to Los Angeles from his home in Idaho only if I paid for eight round-trip tickets for him, his wife and six kids," said Burt. "I agreed to do that, but then Adam had the nerve to ask me to cut the ceremony short — and pay an extra $10,000 for a helicopter to pick him up on the yacht and take him to the airport."
"That was so he could catch a flight up north for a golf lesson," added Burt. "Adam was turning my dream wedding into a shakedown cruise! I politely told him no thanks, and I haven't spoken to him since. And he may never speak to me again after my new book comes out!"
Burt wasn't kidding about going after Adam in his book, either, as he mocked his old costar relentlessly. "It's so full of baloney Burt should open a deli," Adam said later — before the two reunited to cash in big on "Batman" nostalgia. Now, declares Burt, "I will forever miss him!"
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