Piers Morgan
| Piers Morgan link Amazon Twitter (Television presenter, Writer, Journalist, Talk show host, Columnist) | |
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| Born | Piers Stefan O'Meara 30 March 1965 Newick, Sussex, England |
| Victim of | Cancel culture |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Harlow College |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver) |
| Children | Spencer, Stanley, Albert, Elise |
| Spouses | Celia Walden, Marion Shalloe |
Well-known British journalist and media personality, regards Donald Trump as a friend. | |
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan is a British journalist and media personality currently hosting the Piers Morgan Uncensored talk show.[1]
Piers Morgan was previously US editor-at-large for Mail Online, and in the UK presented Piers Morgan's Life Stories and Good Morning Britain.[2]
He was the editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children published in the UK, from 2006 to 2007.
Career
Piers Morgan began his career in Fleet Street as a writer and editor for several British tabloids, including The Sun, News of the World and the Daily Mirror.
In 1994, aged 29, Morgan was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, which made him the youngest editor of a national UK newspaper in more than half a century. In 1995 Morgan left to become editor of the Daily Mirror where he spent eight years.
He was fired in May 2004 following publication of images – apparently showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British troops – that were later admitted to have been faked.[3]
Television
He began hosting Piers Morgan Live on CNN on 17 January 2011 replacing Larry King Live in the 9:00 pm timeslot following Larry King's retirement.[4]
The Piers Morgan Live show was cancelled by CNN in February 2014 and aired its final broadcast on 28 March 2014.[5]
Morgan is a former judge on America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent.[6] He was fired by ITV in 2021.
Piers Morgan Uncensored
In this episode, broadcast on YouTube on 13 April 2026, Piers Morgan was joined by economist and global affairs analyst Jeffrey Sachs and Sky News anchor and host of The World podcast Yalda Hakim.
Morgan's panel comprised PBD Podcast’s ‘Angry Patriot’, Vincent Oshana, host of The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM and YouTube, Dan Abrams, vice chairman of the America First Policy Institute, Fred Fleitz, and author of ‘Separation of Church & Hate’, John Fugelsang.
He also spoke to advisor to Melania Trump, Marc Beckman, about her recent statement on her links to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.[7]
Covid-19
In 2020, having been one of the greatest promoters of increasingly harder lockdown measures, calling people who didn't follow the government imposed rules for "covidiots" and stating "“It’s time to suck it up and make some sacrifices. Your elderly loved ones are worth more than any football match, movie trip, restaurant meal or skiing holiday."[9], he was caught flying to the Caribbean island of Antigua for a luxury Christmas holiday[10].
This follows a string of other prominent lockdown promoters (Neil Ferguson) being caught in similar situations, illustrating how serious they take their own rhetoric.
After Henry Wales (Prince Harry) commented that the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US was "better than we are led to believe through certain corners of the media", Morgan tweeted that "Prince Harry, from his Hollywood mansion, accusing the media of exaggerating the scale of this crisis in Britain is contemptible."[11]
"Utterly unpersuasive"
In November 2012, Piers Morgan was heavily criticised in the official findings of the Leveson Inquiry, when Lord Leveson stated that comments made in Morgan's testimony about phone hacking were "utterly unpersuasive" and "clearly prove ... 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".[13]
Trump's Apprentice
Piers Morgan was the winner of the US celebrity version of The Apprentice in 2008, vying for the title of Donald Trump's "Best Business Brain". He was eventually the overall winner, being named Celebrity Apprentice on 27 March, ahead of fellow finalist, American country music star Trace Adkins and having raised substantially more cash than all the other contestants combined.[14][15]
References
- ↑ "Piers Morgan Uncensored"
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/30/piers-morgan-joins-mail-online
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20041125053916/www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/13/iraq.abuse.statement/index.html
- ↑ http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39060518/ns/today-entertainment
- ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/piers-morgan-s-cnn-show-cancelled-after-3-years-1.2548831
- ↑ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20544255,00.html
- ↑ "'Mentally Unstable' Trump Slams Pope & Tucker Carlson As US Iran War Blockade Begins"
- ↑ https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1329332247950987264
- ↑ https://order-order.com/2021/01/10/finally-piersmorgan-confesses-he-went-to-antigua-for-christmas-ignoring-government-advice-to-only-travel-if-it-is-essential/
- ↑ https://sputniknews.com/uk/202101101081723685-no-tiers-for-piers-itvs-morgan-owns-up-to-caribbean-xmas-trip-during-covid-19-crackdown/
- ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8234071/Row-Prince-Harry-claims-UKs-coronavirus-crisis-better-led-believe.html
- ↑ http://archive.today/2021.12.30-172926/https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1476322143583367168
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/nov/30/piers-morgan-phone-hacking-leveson-inquiry
- ↑ http://www.today.com/id/23838097/ns/today-entertainment/t/relative-unknown-wins-celebrity-apprentice
- ↑ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3639348.ece