Meghan's first win: Piers Morgan leaves her TV show
Following Meghan and Harry's interview with Oprah, the British journalist, and his controversial claims about the Duchess of Sussex, he leaves 'Good Morning Britain'
Piers Morgan, who has always been one of the biggest detractors of Meghan Markle and who, despite the conflicts in which she has been involved in her already extensive career, has enjoyed great popularity, seems to have lived her darkest hours after the controversial claims he made regarding the controversial Duke and Duchess of Sussex interview with Oprah Winfrey.
After this, he decided to leave his program 'Good Morning Britain', after a huge scuffle, on social networks and in his own space, with the weatherman, Alex Beresford, who led him to leave the set with boxes out of temper while his partner made a harsh criticism of his attitude shown against the American actress. Was this a chronicle of a death foretold? If we are allowed the simile with the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, we must say that this was not the first time that his continuity in space was questioned. Recall that his own program did a survey in October 2019 on Twitter asking if they should fire him and up to 60% of tweeters considered that they should fire him.
There are calls for @piersmorgan to be fired over his views on gender.
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) October 14, 2019
Should he stay or should he go?
The same journalist said in his program: "Good Morning Britain will be back tomorrow, not me. I'll see you in a couple of weeks. Goodbye." To which co-host Susanna Reid humorously said: "The petition has worked." Of course he came back in style, and so far nothing suggested that his work could be up in the air. Piers Morgan said then that all this controversy was going to get him a raise in salary. Some statements that came after a campaign emerged in the aforementioned social network for the ITV chain to dispense with its services due to statements about the LGTBI community that many considered discriminatory and even degrading. Because Meghan is not the only front that has had open all these years.
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There are many controversial statements that the long-time journalist has made in recent years against Prince Harry's wife, but in March 2019 he seemed to cross a certain red line by stating that the one who was the protagonist of the series 'Suits' is "a pragmatic social climber ". Statements that served to give arguments to the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, who, as is known, sued several British media and denounced a systematic campaign against his wife. Piers Morgan undoubtedly contributed to this. That is the conclusion drawn in his plea in favor of Meghan by his partner Alex Beresford, who debunked the argument that the Sussexes were not having consideration for Elizabeth II and her husband, by assuring that Prince Andrew had done much more to them. hurt.
His departure was precipitated after this moment and it was the ITV network, the same one that broke all audience records, with 11.3 million viewers, when broadcasting the interview, which gave a brief statement in which he assures that after having some conversations with Piers Morgan, it was he himself who decided that the time had come to leave 'Good Morning Britain'.
The origin of their differences
Her animosity has its roots in the time when Meghan was an emerging actress and, from the arguments she uses, she could even be interpreted as a 'vendetta'. As he himself has related (and his partner Beresford reminded him these days), their relationship goes back, before the now Duke and Duchess of Sussex fell in love. "I got to know her very well for two years. We texted and e-mailed each other a lot. One night in London we had a couple of beers. Later, in the taxi, she said, 'I've had a great time.' that same taxi went to a party that Prince Harry attended and the next day they had a date. I never heard from her again. Never, "he said on an Australian television program. In the aforementioned program, Piers Morgan did not miss the opportunity to give Queen Elizabeth II's grandson some advice: "I wish Harry good luck. I hope he knows what he is doing. If everything goes wrong, don't cry to me. Don't say I didn't warn you. "
In Spain, of course, Piers Morgan is a great unknown, because his work has not had any repercussion here, but both in the United Kingdom and in the United States he is a very notorious figure. His trajectory, always ascending, has been marked by some scandals and by a clear vocation, like what he attributes to Meghan, to go as far as possible. And he has not been bad at all ... His career began in some of the most important tabloids (a term used in the United Kingdom to refer to the tabloid press) in the country and at just 29 years old, in 2004, he reached the managing director of 'The Sun', owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. This appointment made him in his country the youngest person to achieve such an achievement in more than fifty years.
His television career
Later, the great media opportunity of him would arrive by occupying the place left by the emblematic Larry King on CNN, with a program that bore his own name, 'Piers Morgan Live', which gives us a measure of the level of influence of he. Other milestones on his resume are having been a judge on 'America's Got Talent' and its British edition and winning the seventh season of 'Celebrity Apprentice', the reality show of the now former president of the United States, Donald Trump, who was in charge of this format between 2008 and 2015. Their public reunion would take place in March 2016, when he interviewed him on the program 'Good Morning Britain', a few months before the millionaire businessman defeated Hillary Clinton in the US elections. Questioned on several occasions for his journalistic practices, he has been divorced from Marion Shalloe, mother of his first three children, since 2008, after seventeen years of marriage. In June 2010 he remarried journalist Celia Walden, daughter of former Conservative Minister George Walden. The couple has a daughter.
