![]() ![]() Morgan has been a presenter on ITV's Good Morning Britain, which has doubled its audience share from 14 to 28 per cent since he and co-host Susan Reid joined. He took over Larry King's timeslot on CNN in 2011 after the veteran American newsman stepped down, but the show, Piers Morgan Live, failed to rate and was cancelled in early 2014. Morgan went on to be judge on Britain's Got Talent (he was on the panel the year Scottish charity worker Susan Boyle won with a stunning performance of I Dreamed A Dream) and America's Got Talent. He testified before the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking in 2011 that he did not think the practice took place at the Mirror while he was editor. ![]() The following year he took charge of tabloid The Daily Mirror - he was sacked in 2004 for publishing pictures of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British troops that proved to be fake. Morgan was one of the youngest editors ever appointed to a national newspaper when he was picked to captain Rupert Murdoch's masthead, News of the World, at the age of 28 in 1994. Loading.īut the 55-year-old former tabloid newspaper editor has a chequered history as an outspoken icon of the British media and far-reaching connections with the rich and famous. Piers Morgan may be best known to Australians for his viral interview with Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly in which Morgan grilled the politician over his claims that the 2020 summer bushfires were caused by high fuel loads and not climate change. Over the past few years Morgan has been increasingly critical of Meghan, and to a lesser extent Harry, culminating in him storming off UK television show Good Morning Britain after co-host Alex Beresford accused him of "diabolical behaviour". Then, according to Morgan, she "ghosted" him. He wrote in his column for the Mail Online that, if he were Harry, he would be popping the question pretty damn sharpish as he was unlikely to find a better bride to keep him on his toes.Īfter all, he knew Meghan - they met for drinks at his local London pub the week she first dated Harry. In his own words, Piers Morgan believed Meghan Markle to be "perfect princess material" back in December 2016, soon after it was revealed she was dating Prince Harry. ![]() "I found her to be a very smart, focused, thoughtful, feisty and confident woman … I really, really liked her." ![]()
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