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He also presented You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous on BBC One. PIERS Morgan has agreed to be in Strictly’s first all-male coupling with pro Giovanni Pernice – after dancing with judge Bruno Tonioli. Chris Eubank will become the latest star to appear on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories when the latest show airs this week.. [92], In December 2018, Morgan wrote a letter to Trump formally applying to become White House Chief of Staff. He was eventually the overall winner, being named Celebrity Apprentice by host Donald Trump on 27 March, ahead of fellow finalist, American country music star Trace Adkins,[77][78] and having raised substantially more cash than all the other contestants combined. [167] Morgan has also stated he has previously voted for the Labour Party. [85] After the novelist J. K. Rowling tweeted "Yes, watching Piers Morgan being told to fuck off on live TV is *exactly* as satisfying as I'd always imagined", the two began an exchange of words on the social media site. He told Hunter Davies in December 1994 that he was personally recruited by Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie to work on the newspaper's show business column "Bizarre", his first high-profile post. [123][124], In October 2003, journalist and television personality Jeremy Clarkson emptied a glass of water over Morgan during the last flight of Concorde in response to some photographs published in the Mirror. On 18 July 2011 Nott was visited by officers of Operation Weeting. The UK's mental health charity Mind expressed "disappointment" in Morgan's comments and said individuals with experience of mental health issues should be "treated with dignity, respect and empathy. Another participant in the discussion, Australian comedian Jim Jefferies, immediately swore at Morgan and criticised his defence of Trump. In partnership with Matthew Freud, he gained ownership in May 2005 of Press Gazette, a media trade publication together with its "cash cow", the British Press Awards, in a deal worth £1 million. [36], The Mirror attempted to move mid-market in 2002, eschewing the more trivial stories of show-business and gossip, and appointed Christopher Hitchens as a columnist, but sales declined. [35] On 7 December 2005, Bhoyrul and Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act. "[98], During Morgan's tenure as editor, the Daily Mirror was advised by Steven Nott that voicemail interception was possible by means of a standard PIN code. Speaking in defence of Wenger in 2015, former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson labelled Morgan an "incredibly pompous individual". [127], On 4 February 2014, transgender advocate Janet Mock appeared as a guest on Piers Morgan Live to discuss her memoir, Redefining Realness. This attracted 950 Ofcom complaints from viewers. [8][9] On 9 March 2021, ITV announced that Morgan decided to leave the programme with immediate effect, following public outrage in response to negative comments he made about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in the days after the US airing of the Oprah with Meghan and Harry interview. ), "Britain's first national newspaper for children to launch Friday", Associated Press, 4 May 2006, Other newspapers aimed at young audiences have included, Gallivan, Rory and Zekaria, Simon (September 2014). Cristiano Ronaldo: Juventus wall vs Porto blasted by Jamie Carragher. [63] Other guests on the programme included Cheryl[64] and the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown. [1] From 2006 to 2007, he was the editorial director at First News. The "City Slickers" columnists, Anil Bhoyrul and James Hipwell, were both found to have committed further breaches of the Code and were sacked before the inquiry concluded. Morgan's golden handcuffs deal was the first signing by ITV's new director of television, Peter Fincham. A. Gill began when Morgan described Gill’s partner Nicola Formby as a sex kitten on whom the mists of time had taken their toll[126] and claimed she had shown him "porn shots" of herself. For 20 years, he bestrode the cricketing world like a colossus, mercilessly smashing bowlers and records with equal gusto. The Brazilian tragically passed away in the middle of his career after an on-track collision. "Has she said anything about you after she cut you off? [93], During Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom in June 2019, Morgan once again interviewed Trump, this time at the Churchill War Rooms. It's my job, Have I Got News for You Episode Guide > Season 11, Episode 6, "Piers Morgan: 'I want to be at the centre of the big stuff, "Piers Morgan: The man with stars in his eyes", "Piers Morgan: 'Do I genuinely feel a pathological hatred of vegan sausage rolls? [14] With regard to his religious views, Morgan still identifies as a Catholic due to his mother's influence, and believes in an afterlife, but does not "go to Confession, probably because it would take [him] too long". Initially an acting editor, he was confirmed in the summer, becoming at 29 the youngest national newspaper editor in more than half a century. Even Brady has admitted that Montana 'is in a league of his own.'". All Rights Reserved. [81] He predicted Trump's election as President of the United States and has described himself as a close friend. Piers Morgan. Morgan responded that he had "never been treated in such a disgraceful manner" by a guest. [69] Commenting on the viewing figures, Morgan said that he was "a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it. Raheem Sterling Trolls Piers Morgan On Fifth Anniversary Of Signing For Manchester City Ryan Sidle in Football Published 12:53 PM , Tuesday July 14 2020 GMT+1 He fronted a three-part documentary about Sandbanks for ITV entitled Piers Morgan on Sandbanks in January 2008. "[70], From 13 to 17 April 2015, Morgan guest-hosted five episodes of Good Morning Britain on ITV and became a permanent co-host in November 2015, appearing alongside Susanna Reid and Charlotte Hawkins. During the trial it emerged that Morgan had bought £67,000 worth of Viglen shares, emptying his bank account and investing under his (first) wife's name, too. [82] Morgan interviewed Trump on Good Morning Britain in March 2016. Piers verbally launched a campaign saying that those who spew racist abuse on social media should be held to account in real life. Piers Morgan was born in Sussex, England in 1965 to an Irish dentist who died when Morgan was only two years old. [16], As editor of the Daily Mirror, Morgan was forced to apologise on television for the headline (rendered in upper case) "Achtung Surrender! Tedious little man. ", "Piers Morgan joins Mail Online as US editor-at-large", "Amanda Platell notes Piers Morgan's two left feet", "Morgan and Platell to return on Channel 4", "Sandbanks: Piers Morgan meets Dorset's mega-rich", "Piers Morgan: Britain's Got Talent judge signs two-year deal with ITV", "Review: Piers Morgan in... 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"[106][107], On 29 November 2012, the official findings of the Leveson Inquiry were released, in which Lord Justice Leveson said that Morgan's testimony under oath on phone hacking was "utterly unpersuasive". The conflict escalated and at one point the host, Angus Deayton, asked if they wished to go outside and have a fight. [59], In 2008, Morgan signed a two-year "golden handcuffs" deal with ITV in May, reportedly worth £2 million per year. [1] Although he was not a fan of pop music, he was considered skilled at self-publicity and became the column's main writer. Morgan began to work as a freelance at The Sun in 1988, at this point dropping his double-barrelled name. [49], Morgan was filmed falling off a Segway, breaking three ribs, in 2007. He recalled a lunch with the Mirror editor in September 2002 at which Morgan outlined the means of hacking into a mobile phone. Morgan made known his shocking top 10 whilst reading an opinionated piece for his Mail Online column. A former international cricketer with England, Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff now works in television and radio having retired in 2015. Piers Morgan attempted to give his wife, Celia, a trendy new haircut in lockdown Credit: Instagram And that’s exactly what Piers Morgan spent his evening doing, as he debuted a new career … "Madonna Banned..." by Gil Kaufman, MTV, 28 March 2012; "Kelsey Grammer Walks Out on Piers Morgan", ABC News, 20 September 2012; "Kelsey Grammer storms off set" by Emily Gagne. [114] Ofcom confirmed on 13 April 2016 that Morgan would not be investigated for his comments. He was accused online of using language which is used to antagonise Chinese people and for mocking the Chinese language. She’s entitled to cut you off if she wants to. He said: "You can access ... voicemails by typing in a number. [1], In January 1994, he became editor of the News of the World after being appointed to the job by Rupert Murdoch. Roy Greenslade wrote in August 1999 that Morgan's editorship "has made a huge difference: his enormous enthusiasm, determination and focus is a major plus". [128], Morgan strongly objected to the Women's March on Washington on 21 January 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration, describing protesters as "rabid feminists" and the multiple protests as being "vacuous". [83], Morgan appeared on ITV's Loose Women panel show in late January 2017, and was challenged to repudiate Trump. In October 2018, Morgan appeared as a cameo on Hollyoaks. Piers went on to host his own talk shows, Life Stories with Piers Morgan, which started in 2011 and is still running today, and Piers Morgan Live, which ran from 2011 to 2014. [10][11], Morgan was born Piers Stefan O'Meara on 30 March 1965 in Surrey, the son of Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, an Irish dentist from County Offaly,[12][13] and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver),[14] an English woman who raised Morgan Catholic. "[153], In September 2012, it was reported that Morgan had also banned actor Kelsey Grammer. [26] Morgan's autobiography The Insider states that he left the News of the World for the Mirror of his own choice. Morgan clearly hasn’t taken into consideration the level of competition this choice faced. It asserts he was an admirer of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for most of her period of office, making the appointment surprising as the Mirror is a Labour-supporting title. [134][140][141], Morgan was briefly a friend of Meghan Markle before she became the Duchess of Sussex, but claims she cut him off early in her relationship with Prince Harry. [132] In it, show regular Ian Hislop accused Morgan of having him followed and having his house watched. [99], He came under criticism for his "boasting" about phone hacking from Conservative MP Louise Mensch, who has since apologised for these accusations. He also made some interview specials, plus three more documentaries from various countries. [66][67] After poor ratings, CNN announced that the show was to be axed. Gill said Morgan had made this up and called him a "pretty objectionable self-publicist". On television, Morgan has hosted his own talk shows Piers Morgan's Life Stories (2009–present) and Piers Morgan Live (2011–2014), co-presented the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain (2015–2021) with Susanna Reid, and judged on the talent competition shows America's Got Talent (2006–2011) and Britain's Got Talent (2007–2010). Piers Morgan left fans overjoyed after taking to Twitter to drop a "big announcement" regarding a surprising career move. Former Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has waged a war of words against Good Morning Britain co-presenter Piers Morgan on Twitter.. [55], He co-hosted a current affairs interview show on Channel 4 with Amanda Platell, Morgan and Platell. His sole request was not to show any images of her. [50][51][52], In 2012, following the revelation of Jimmy Savile's sexual abuse against children, Morgan said to have "never met" Savile in his lifetime; however, it was pointed out that in a 2009 piece by Morgan in The Mail on Sunday's Night & Day magazine he wrote that "As I left, Jimmy Savile came up to me. In 2011, Morgan denied having ever hacked a phone or "to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone". The journalist's selection comes in the wake of Tom Brady’s seventh Super Bowl triumph at the ripe old age of 43. [1], Morgan left this post in 1995 shortly after publishing photographs of Catherine Victoria Lockwood, then wife of Charles, Earl Spencer, leaving an addictive disorders clinic in Surrey. Piers Morgan has once again taken aim at the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle. Do I think that will govern and temper how I talk about them going forward? [116], On 11 September 2019, Morgan claimed he identified himself as "a two-spirit penguin" in response to a news piece relating to gender neutrality, and said "the world has gone nuts" over gender. [147], When challenged by Decca Aitkenhead of The Sunday Times in May 2020 over "his vendetta" against the Duchess, with Aitkenhead suggesting he had gone too far, Morgan said: "I think that’s a perfectly fair criticism. And that's why, for me, he's the sporting GOAT.". ... Former wonderkid but injuries ruined my football career (honestly). [12] His father died when Morgan was 11 months old; his mother later married Glynne Pughe-Morgan,[17][18] a Welsh pub landlord who later worked in the meat distribution business, and he took his stepfather's surname. I'm sure it won't stop him carrying on his 'Piers Moron' stuff"[136] (Private Eye, the fortnightly satirical magazine which Hislop edits, regularly calls Morgan 'Piers Moron'). [75], On Good Morning Britain on 9 March 2021, he said he doubted the accuracy of the account given by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in the interview Oprah with Meghan and Harry with Oprah Winfrey, of her mental health issues, which included suicidal thoughts, and of racist comments from the extended family. Morgan made known his shocking top … "[154] TVGuide reported, "All plans were still a go for the segment until Grammer actually got in the hot seat and saw the footage the producers had planned to peg to the segment, including a picture of his ex-wife". [121] Morgan also spoke over the advert, saying "ching chang cho jo". [95][96][97], In the aftermath of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Morgan stated that Trump was "mentally unfit" to remain as president. [165], Politically, Morgan identified as a supporter of the Conservative Party in a 1994 interview. He was cleared of any wrongdoing in November 2019, and in response, Morgan admitted "he was personally quite pleased" with having one of the highest number of complaints to any British TV show in 2019. Morgan appeared as a celebrity contestant on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2007, to raise money for the BBC charity telethon Comic Relief. He claimed that the pandemic and Trump's election loss which followed had "sent him nuts". While Bradman’s stats were mightily impressive, the level the sport was at back then, the depth of competition and the athleticism of the athletes, can’t be ignored. He has been a regular critic of the couple since then, alleging they are hypocrites and claiming the Duchess is a social climber. [24][25], The incident was reported to have contributed to Morgan's decision to leave for the Daily Mirror editorship. [103][104] She said that she had never authorised Morgan, or anybody, to access or listen to her voicemails. Morgan was chosen by Simon Cowell as a replacement for himself because of the conditions of his American Idol contract. Later in the day, ITV plc announced he was to leave the programme. [104], On 23 May 2012, Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman was a witness at the Leveson Inquiry. Piers' post-journalism career began when he presented a BBC television documentary The Importance of … Piers Morgan, who has left his job as a presenter of ITV’s Good Morning Britain, has had a varied career in the media industry. "His stats were ridiculous: a final batting international batting average of 99.94 runs per innings, which is an astonishing 38 runs above the next highest player. "[102] Appearing as a witness at the same Inquiry on 9 February 2012, Mills was asked under oath if she had ever made a recording of McCartney's phone call or had played it to Morgan; she replied: "Never". [73][74] He also presented Serial Killer with Piers Morgan, as part of the 2017 Crime & Punishment season on ITV. The BBC reported that it had seen legal papers showing that although the alleged hacking could have taken place as early as 1998, the bulk of the alleged wrongdoing took place in the early 2000s when Morgan was the Daily Mirror editor. [158][159] In June 2010, he married his second wife, journalist Celia Walden, daughter of the former Conservative MP George Walden. While working at the Daily Mirror, he was in charge during the period that the paper was implicated in the phone hacking scandal. [168], Piers Morgan, The Hot Seat: Love, War, and Cable News (2014), p. 5, Roy Greenslade, Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda (2004), p. 602, George Wilkes and Dominic Wing "The British Press and European Integration: 1948 to 1996", in David Baker, David Seawright (eds. He stated: "[The] evidence does not establish that [Morgan] authorised the hacking of voicemails or that journalists employed by TMG [Trinity Mirror Group] were indulging in this practice ... What it does, however, clearly prove is that he was aware that it was taking place in the press as a whole and that he was sufficiently unembarrassed by what was criminal behaviour that he was prepared to joke about it. [15] He has a brother, Jeremy, who is older than him by two years. Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan tore into online racist trolls as he called for harsher punishments and fines for offenders. This was judged by Ofcom to be unfair to the council. Absolutely. First News was launched by Morgan on 4 May 2006. At the annual Pride of Britain Awards broadcast on ITV, Morgan chaired a panel of prominent people who had chosen the recipients of the awards from 1999 to 2006. Sorry America, I love your Super Bowl king too - but he doesn't make my Top 10 all-time sporting GOATs," read the headline of Morgan's blog. The campaigners described the programme as having "sanctioning bullying and blatant unapologetic disrespect of women" in allowing Morgan's treatment of Hirsch. It was shameless, as they didn't know me from Adam", he told Davies. [80], Morgan stated he personally would not vote for Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election (though as a permanent resident of the United States, not a citizen, he is not qualified to vote). [115] On 22 January 2018, during a story about a homeless SAS veteran, who had a petition set up in his name calling on his local council to provide him with social housing, Morgan had refused to read out Herefordshire Council's statement. Piers Morgan has denied that he "hates" Meghan Markle ahead of her explosive sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey this evening - but claimed that he "sees right through her". Morgan particularly took issue with Trump's suggestion of looking into "ingesting" disinfectant as a possible solution, describing it as "batshit crazy". Morgan himself claimed, "Kelsey Grammer saw a photo of his ex-wife Camille in the open of our show and legged it. During his tenure at Good Morning Britain, Morgan was the subject of thousands of complaints to the British watchdog, Ofcom, relating to his comments. [20] This action ran against the editors' code of conduct,[21] a misdemeanour for which the Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint against Morgan. My friends think that's not nearly enough. [130] Morgan accused McGregor of being a "paedophile-loving hypocrite" for his past support of Roman Polanski. [110][111] Six other phone-hacking claims had already been settled. After the interview aired, Mock sent a series of tweets criticising Morgan for describing Mock as being "formerly a man". Neither the reporters nor the photographers succeeded. Please STOP this madness & undo your retweets". Television personality Piers Morgan co-presents Good Morning Britain on ITV. [5][6] Morgan has written eight books, including four volumes of memoirs. Almost certainly his most controversial pick comes at number one in the form of Sir Donald Bradman. The couple had three sons, Albert, Spencer, and Stanley, and separated in 2004 before divorcing in 2008. He told Hunter Davies in December 1994 that he was personally recruited by Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie to work on the newspaper's show business column "Bizarre", his first high-profile post.