Piers Morgan Out At Good Morning Britain
Piers Morgan is leaving Good Morning Britain, ITV announced Monday.
“Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain,” the statement via Mediaite read. “ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add.”
Morgan has been in the headlines since the moment Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on Sunday night. Twitter quickly and angrily called for Morgan's job after he referred to Markle as the "Pinocchio Princess."
He also dropped this one in there:
“This interview is an absolutely disgraceful betrayal of the Queen and the Royal Family. I expect all this vile, destructive, self-serving nonsense from Meghan Markle – but for Harry to let her take down his family and the Monarchy like this is shameful.”
“They trash everybody,” Morgan adds. “They basically make out the entire royal family a bunch of white supremacists.”
Tuesday morning, Morgan stormed off the GMB set amid a berating from co-presenter Alex Beresford:
That is never good.
OFCOM, a British broadcasting regulator, says 41,000 people wrote in to complain about Morgan’s comments.
What's next for Piers Morgan? Not silence. Morgan wasted just a few minutes to comment on his departure from GMB:
Free agency, he goes.