UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo and No. 1 contender Conor McGregor are not going to be best friends any time soon and it was made very apparent once again while on a press tour at CTV on Friday.

A "Canada AM" staffer told TSN.ca that prior to an appearance on the show the two fighters got in each other’s faces and almost came to blows mere minutes before appearing on air.

“All of a sudden there’s some, ‘You want some? You want some of this?’ that kind of thing, the chattering,” the staff member said. “This is not the stuff where they kind of make things up and they make up beefs. This is the real deal and it was icy.”

The two opponents, who will meet at UFC 189 for the featherweight title on July 11, are in the midst of a world press tour hitting eight cities and five countries over 12 days to promote the summer bout.

The staffer said that seating arrangements were changed at the request of UFC president Dana White and a glass table on set was moved as a precautionary measure.

“We thought if these guys go at any time glass will be shattered, so we better for precautionary reasons,” the staff member said. “The tension was palpable and Dana said unless we want a problem we better change the seating arrangement.”

When asked about the situation later in the day, Aldo brushed off the encounter as something that has happened all to often between the two since the title fight was announced.

“Yeah there was a little incident,” Aldo said through a translator, “but I think that’s always going to happen when we’re close to each other, so it’s OK.”

The champ wasn’t holding any grudges either and wouldn’t knock McGregor for his dreams of capturing the gold.

“I just see him as somebody that wants something that I have,” he added, “and I’m not going to give it to him.”