Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan is an English journalist and broadcaster who, in March 2021, answered the largest number of complaints Ofcom had ever received about a programme with a sarcastic question. "Only 57,000?" he said. He added that more people than that had congratulated him in the street. The remark was typical of a career built on provoking a reaction.
He has edited national newspapers, judged talent shows on both sides of the Atlantic, hosted a talk show for CNN and ended up broadcasting from YouTube. Admirers see an energetic interviewer who draws an audience. Critics see someone who thrives on feuds. Judges and inquiries have also examined what he knew about phone hacking.
How did a freelance showbiz columnist climb so quickly through the British press? What did a public inquiry and a High Court judge make of his denials? And how did a self-described friendship with an American president, followed by a bitter quarrel with a royal duchess, come to shape his later years?
Piers Morgan was born Piers Stefan O'Meara in Guildford, Surrey, on the 30th of March 1965. His father, Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, was an Irish dentist. His mother, Gabrielle, was an Englishwoman who raised him as a Catholic. The family moved to Newick, East Sussex, a few months after his birth.
His father died when the boy was only 11 months old. His mother later married Glynne Pughe-Morgan, a Welsh pub landlord who afterwards worked in meat distribution. The boy took his stepfather's surname.
Schooling began at Cumnor House, a fee-paying prep school, where he stayed from the age of seven to 13. Next came Chailey School, a comprehensive, and then Priory School in Lewes for sixth form. Nine months at Lloyd's of London followed, before he studied journalism at Harlow College. In 1985 he joined the Surrey and South London Newspaper Group.
In 1988 he started freelancing at The Sun, and at that point he dropped the double-barrelled name. He later told the writer Hunter Davies that the editor Kelvin MacKenzie recruited him personally for "Bizarre", the paper's show business column. Morgan was no devotee of pop music. Colleagues did regard him as gifted at self-promotion, and he became the column's main writer.
His own description of the period was blunt. "I became the Friend of the Stars, a rampant egomaniac, pictured all the time with famous people", he told Davies. He added that it was shameless, since the celebrities did not know him from Adam.
Around 1993 and 1994 he was the official biographer of the pop group Take That. He wrote two books on the band and had exclusive access to document their rise.
In January 1994 Rupert Murdoch appointed him to run the News of the World. He began as acting editor and was confirmed in the summer. At 29, he was the youngest national newspaper editor in more than half a century. Morgan credited the paper's run of scoops to an efficient news desk and to the publicist Max Clifford.
The job ended in 1995, soon after the paper printed photographs of Catherine Victoria Lockwood, then the wife of Charles, Earl Spencer. She was shown leaving an addictive disorders clinic in Surrey. The Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint, finding that the pictures broke the editors' code of conduct. Murdoch was reported to have said "the boy went too far" and publicly distanced himself from the story. Fearing a privacy action, Murdoch is said to have apologised to Morgan in private.
Morgan's autobiography, The Insider, insists he chose to leave. His next job was editing the Daily Mirror, which backed Labour. The same book says he had admired Margaret Thatcher for most of her time in office, which made the appointment a surprising one.
On the 25th of June 1996, the Daily Mirror ran a headline in capitals: "ACHTUNG! SURRENDER; For you, Fritz, ze Euro 96 Championship is over". It appeared the day before England met Germany in a Euro 96 semi-final. An open letter from Morgan parodied Neville Chamberlain's 1939 declaration of war. Morgan later apologised on television. "It was intended as a joke, but anyone who was offended by it must have taken it seriously, and to those people I say sorry", he said. Germany won the match, and then the final at Wembley.
The paper spent £16 million on a rebrand under his leadership. It dropped "Daily" from its masthead in February 1997, a change that was later reversed. In August 1999 the media commentator Roy Greenslade judged that Morgan's enthusiasm, determination and focus had made a big difference to the paper.
Trouble over shares came in 2000. Suzy Jagger reported in The Daily Telegraph that Morgan had bought £20,000 of Viglen computer shares shortly before the Mirror's "City Slickers" column tipped the company as a good buy. The Press Complaints Commission found he had breached its code on financial journalism, yet he kept his job. The column's writers, Anil Bhoyrul and James Hipwell, were sacked before the inquiry ended. A Department of Trade and Industry inquiry cleared Morgan in 2004.
On the 7th of December 2005 Bhoyrul and Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act. At the trial it emerged that Morgan's Viglen purchase had been larger, at £67,000. He had emptied his bank account and invested partly in his first wife's name.
In 2002 the Mirror tried to move upmarket, dropping celebrity gossip and hiring Christopher Hitchens as a columnist. Sales fell. Morgan's public clashes meanwhile drew crowds. In October 2003 Jeremy Clarkson poured a glass of water over him on the last flight of Concorde, angry about photographs the paper had published. In March 2004, at the British Press Awards, Clarkson punched him three times during another argument.
The following May, the Law Lords ruled for the model Naomi Campbell on privacy grounds. The Mirror had published a picture of her entering a Narcotics Anonymous clinic. Morgan called it "a good day for lying, drug-abusing prima donnas who want to have their cake with the media and the right to then shamelessly guzzle with their Cristal champagne".
His time at the paper ended on the 14th of May 2004. After the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, the Mirror had printed photographs said to show Iraqi prisoners being abused by soldiers of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. Within days they were exposed as crude fakes. The paper apologised under the headline "SORRY..WE WERE HOAXED". Morgan would not concede the pictures were fake. He also refused to apologise to Sly Bailey, then head of Trinity Mirror, and was sacked with immediate effect.
In May 2005, with Matthew Freud, he bought the trade magazine Press Gazette and the British Press Awards for £1 million. The deal was cited as one reason major papers boycotted the 2006 awards. On the 4th of May 2006 he launched First News, pitched at readers aged seven to 14 as Britain's first national newspaper for children. He called himself its "editorial overlord and frontman". In September 2014 he became the first editor-at-large of MailOnline's American operation.
In 1999 a man named Steven Nott told the Daily Mirror that voicemail could be intercepted using a standard PIN code. Staff were at first enthusiastic about the story. It never ran in the paper, though it did surface in the South Wales Argus and on BBC Radio 5 Live in October 1999. On the 18th of July 2011, officers from Operation Weeting visited Nott.
That same month, the political blogger Paul Staines alleged that Morgan had published a 2002 story about Sven-Göran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson while knowing it came from phone hacking. Morgan said in 2011 that he had never hacked a phone. He also said he had not, to his knowledge, published any story obtained that way.
On the 20th of December 2011 he gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry by satellite link from the United States. He said he had no reason to believe hacking happened at the Mirror in his time. Yet he admitted hearing a recording of an answerphone message left by Paul McCartney for Heather Mills. He declined to say where it was played or who made it, because that would compromise a source.
Mills told the inquiry on the 9th of February 2012, under oath, that she had never made such a recording or played one to him. She said she had never authorised him or anyone to listen to her voicemails.
The broadcaster Jeremy Paxman testified on the 23rd of May 2012. He recalled a lunch in September 2002 at which the Mirror editor explained how to access a mobile phone voicemail using the network's default security code.
On the 28th of November 2012, the Channel 4 documentary Taking on the Tabloids, fronted by Hugh Grant, showed footage from a 2003 interview. In it, Morgan told the singer Charlotte Church how to stop journalists listening to her answerphone messages. "You can access... voicemails by typing in a number. Now, are you really telling me that journalists aren't going to do that?" he said.
The Leveson report followed the next day. Lord Justice Leveson judged Morgan's sworn testimony on hacking "utterly unpersuasive". He said the evidence did not establish that Morgan authorised hacking or that Trinity Mirror journalists were doing it. But it did prove that Morgan knew it was happening across the press. It also showed that he was "sufficiently unembarrassed by what was criminal behaviour that he was prepared to joke about it".
On the 6th of December 2013, police from Operation Weeting interviewed Morgan under caution. In September 2014 Trinity Mirror admitted for the first time that some of its journalists had been involved in phone hacking. It agreed to pay compensation to four people, after settling six other claims. Legal papers seen by the BBC suggested most of the alleged wrongdoing took place in the early 2000s, when Morgan edited the paper. He has always denied involvement.
In June 2023 Prince Harry accused Morgan of attacking him and his wife to deter his legal case, and of hacking his phone and that of his mother, Diana. The High Court awarded Harry £140,600 against Mirror Group Newspapers. Fifteen of 33 sample articles were found to come from hacking or other unlawful information gathering. Mr Justice Fancourt said Morgan and other editors knew about the hacking and were involved in it. Morgan again denied involvement and reviled Harry. Sir Alan Moses, a former chair of the press regulator IPSO, was among those who criticised that reaction.
After the ruling, the campaign group Hacked Off asked police to investigate possible perjury by senior Mirror staff at the Leveson Inquiry.
In 2003 the BBC broadcast The Importance of Being Famous, a three-part series presented by Morgan about fame and how the media cover celebrities. He also chaired the panel that chose winners for the Pride of Britain Awards on ITV from 1999 to 2006. On Channel 4 he co-hosted an interview show with Amanda Platell. The two were paired for their opposing politics, Platell questioning guests from the right and Morgan from the left. It was dropped after three series, reputedly for weak ratings.
The breakthrough was America's Got Talent on NBC, where he judged in 2006 alongside Brandy Norwood and David Hasselhoff. Simon Cowell chose him as his own replacement, because his American Idol contract barred him from the job. In 2007 Morgan joined Cowell and Amanda Holden as a judge on Britain's Got Talent. That year he also took part in Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, where Sir Alan Sugar picked him as the one to fire after his team lost.
In May 2008 ITV signed him to a two-year "golden handcuffs" deal, reportedly worth £2 million a year. It was the first signing by Peter Fincham, ITV's new director of television. In 2009 he started Piers Morgan's Life Stories on ITV, with Sharon Osbourne as the first guest. Later subjects included the singer Cheryl and the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
On the 17th of January 2011 he took over Larry King's evening slot on CNN with Piers Morgan Live. After poor ratings, it was cancelled in February 2014 and ended in March. Morgan blamed the figures partly on being a British man arguing about American cultural issues. He pointed in particular to guns, which he said many viewers were tired of hearing him raise.
From the 13th to the 17th of April 2015, he guest-hosted five editions of Good Morning Britain on ITV. He became a permanent co-host in November 2015, joining Susanna Reid and Charlotte Hawkins. Reid described the dynamic by saying that you could not help but go into battle with him every morning. Away from the sofa, he interviewed female murderers for Killer Women with Piers Morgan in 2016-2017 and made a cameo on Hollyoaks in October 2018.
On the 16th of September 2021, News UK announced a new channel, TalkTV, with Morgan as its first signing. Piers Morgan Uncensored began on weeknights on the 25th of April 2022. Within a week, estimated audiences for his show had fallen by 80 percent, from 316,800 to 61,700 on average. His November 2022 interview with Cristiano Ronaldo then won Scoop of the Year at the British Sports Journalism Awards on the 7th of March 2023. It took the TRIC award for Interview of the Year in June 2023.
During the Gaza war, Mehdi Hasan, Bassem Youssef and others criticised his habit of opening interviews with pro-Palestinian guests by asking "Do you condemn Hamas?"
In February 2024 Morgan announced the show would leave TalkTV and air exclusively on YouTube. Since September 2025, a weekly highlights programme drawn from those YouTube episodes has aired on Channel 5.
On the 27th of March 2008, Donald Trump named Piers Morgan the winner of the American Celebrity Apprentice. Finalist Trace Adkins, a country singer, lost out, and Morgan had raised far more money than all the other contestants combined. In the final, Trump called him "ruthless, arrogant, evil and obnoxious".
A friendship of sorts followed. Morgan predicted Trump's election as president and described himself as a close friend. He said he would not have voted for him in 2016, though as a permanent resident rather than a citizen he could not vote anyway. He interviewed Trump on Good Morning Britain in March 2016.
After Trump took office, the pair's relationship got more complicated. Appearing on Loose Women in late January 2017, Morgan said he disagreed with Trump on gun control, climate change, abortion and the so-called Muslim travel ban. Yet he called the principle behind the travel restrictions understandable. Days later, on Real Time with Bill Maher, he said there was no Muslim ban, because 85 percent of the world's Muslims were allowed into the country. The comedian Jim Jefferies swore at him on air. The novelist J. K. Rowling tweeted about the satisfaction of watching it, and she and Morgan traded barbs online.
In late November 2017 Trump retweeted videos from Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of Britain First. Morgan tweeted at the president, asking what the hell he was doing and begging him to undo the retweets.
The next January, Morgan presented President Trump - The Piers Morgan Interview for ITV. Many viewers thought it a "love-in", and some called it sycophantic. In a Radio Times Twitter poll, 88 percent of respondents said he was not tough enough. In July 2018 he interviewed Trump again, this time on Air Force One during an internal flight in the UK. In December 2018 he wrote formally applying to be White House Chief of Staff. In June 2019, during the state visit, they met at the Churchill War Rooms.
The tone cooled in April 2020. Morgan's MailOnline column attacked Trump's handling of the pandemic, especially his suggestion of looking into "ingesting" disinfectant, which Morgan called "batshit crazy". Trump responded by unfollowing him on Twitter. After the attack on the US Capitol in January 2021, Morgan said Trump was "mentally unfit". Asked whether he regretted supporting him, he said: "No question. I never thought he was capable of this."
In April 2022 Trump sat for another interview. Morgan told him he had lost a free and fair election. Trump called him a fool, then walked out, calling him "dishonest".
In 2023 Morgan urged Republicans to back Ron DeSantis, a "winner", rather than Trump, whom he called a "political suicide bomber". Trump hit back at both men. He posted that DeSantis was too busy "chatting with a Ratings Challenged TV Host from England".
Piers Morgan once counted Meghan, later the Duchess of Sussex, as a friend, but says she cut him off early in her relationship with Prince Harry. He has been a regular critic of the couple ever since, calling them hypocrites and describing her as a social climber.
When the couple stepped back from royal duties in early 2020, he called them "the two most spoiled brats in history". On Good Morning Britain on the 13th of January, he interviewed the writer Afua Hirsch, who said parts of the British media treated the Duchess in a racist way. He called that reading "completely and grotesquely wrong". A group of 100 African Caribbean women, InfluencHers, urged advertisers to boycott the programme.
In May 2020 Decca Aitkenhead of The Sunday Times put it to him that his hostility had become a vendetta. He replied that this was a fair criticism. Taking things too far was probably unwise for a columnist, he said, and he admitted he probably had.
The real break came on the 8th and the 9th of March 2021. On Good Morning Britain, he said he doubted the account the Duchess gave in her interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which she spoke about suicidal thoughts. On the 9th, a tense argument with his co-host Alex Beresford ended with Morgan walking off the set. Beresford told him that she was entitled to cut him off, and asked why he kept trashing her. Later that day, Morgan quit.
The mental health charity Mind said it was disappointed. ITV's chief executive, Carolyn McCall, defended the Duchess's account, adding that everyone should. ITV News reported that the Duchess had complained directly to McCall.
Morgan posted a statement on Twitter saying he still did not believe the Duchess. He added that freedom of speech was a hill he was happy to die on. Broadcaster Andrew Neil called his exit a pity, saying Morgan brought energy, dynamism and controversy to the schedule. Neil floated the idea of Morgan joining GB News, but said talks foundered over how much Morgan was worth.
In Morgan's last week, Good Morning Britain beat BBC Breakfast in the ratings for the first time. ITV lost almost £200m in market value after his departure. The comedian Steve Coogan, a supporter of press regulation, called him "symptomatic of the problem" with the tabloids, and accused him of bullying.
Ofcom opened its investigation on the 9th of March 2021, and the Duchess herself complained. In September 2021 it cleared ITV of any wrongdoing. It said restricting Morgan's opinions would be a "chilling restriction" on free speech, though it criticised his "apparent disregard" for suicide. Morgan called the ruling a resounding victory for free speech and a defeat for "Princess Pinocchios".
On the 29th of November 2023, his Uncensored show named two members of the Royal Family who had allegedly discussed the skin colour of Meghan's baby. Neither Harry nor Meghan had named them. The writer Omid Scobie had named them in the Dutch edition of his book Endgame, which was pulled from sale. A source for the family said they were "considering all options". Morgan defended his move the following night, saying it was "entirely lawful".
In 2015 Ofcom criticised Morgan for laughing while a guest repeatedly swore live on Good Morning Britain. It took no action, since Susanna Reid apologised quickly. In 2016 the regulator received 70 complaints about his interview with the Christian magistrate Richard Page on gay marriage, and it confirmed on the 13th of April that no investigation would follow. On the 21st of January 2020, 1,095 viewers complained after he mimicked the Chinese language over a dairy advert, and he was accused of racism.
The feuds ran wider. The critic A. A. Gill fell out with him after Morgan wrote about Gill's partner, Nicola Formby. Gill said Morgan had made up part of the story and called him a "pretty objectionable self-publicist". In May 2011 Morgan announced on Twitter that Hugh Grant was banned "in perpetuity" from his shows, after Grant spoke out against the tabloid press. In September 2012 he was reported to have banned Kelsey Grammer too, after a photograph of Grammer's ex-wife appeared on screen.
On the 4th of February 2014, the activist Janet Mock appeared on Piers Morgan Live to discuss her memoir Redefining Realness. She later criticised him on Twitter for describing her as "formerly a man". She returned the next night to debate the dispute.
John Cleese said in 2015 that he "truly detested" Morgan, wrongly adding that Morgan had admitted authorising phone hacking. Morgan said the revulsion was mutual. After the Women's March on Washington on the 21st of January 2017, the actor Ewan McGregor withdrew from a Good Morning Britain interview upon learning Morgan would conduct it. Morgan then called McGregor a "paedophile-loving hypocrite", citing his past support for Roman Polanski.
Football supplied a longer-running quarrel. Morgan, an Arsenal supporter, repeatedly called for the sacking of manager Arsène Wenger. In 2015 the former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson called him an "incredibly pompous individual". When Aaron Ramsey met Morgan on the 26th of April 2015, the midfielder refused to shake his hand.
His politics have shifted. In a 1994 interview he said he was "still basically a Tory" while praising Tony Blair. He voted for the Animal Welfare Party in 2015 and against Brexit in 2016. In 2019 he voted Conservative because of Boris Johnson's pledge to honour the result of the referendum. In November 2024 he called himself a centrist.
In 2007 he was filmed falling off a Segway, breaking three ribs. Simon Cowell mocked him, recalling a 2003 Mirror headline that had ridiculed George W. Bush for falling off one. On the 18th of January 2026, Morgan posted on Instagram that he had fallen in a London restaurant. He had broken his femoral neck, and needed hip replacement surgery.
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Who is Piers Morgan?
An English journalist and broadcaster who edited the News of the World and the Daily Mirror, judged talent shows, hosted shows on CNN, ITV and TalkTV, and now presents Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube.
Why did Piers Morgan leave Good Morning Britain?
He quit on the 9th of March 2021 after doubting the Duchess of Sussex's account in her Oprah Winfrey interview and walking off the set during an argument with co-host Alex Beresford.
Why was Piers Morgan sacked from the Daily Mirror?
He was sacked on the 14th of May 2004 after the paper published fake photographs of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners and he refused to apologise to the head of Trinity Mirror.
What has Piers Morgan said about phone hacking?
He has always denied involvement. The Leveson Inquiry called his testimony utterly unpersuasive, and a 2023 High Court ruling said he and other editors knew about hacking at their publications.
How did Ofcom rule on his comments about the Duchess of Sussex?
In September 2021 Ofcom cleared ITV of wrongdoing and said restricting his views would be a chilling restriction on free speech, while criticising his apparent disregard for the subject of suicide.
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- 49NewsI should have been fired years ago, to be honestLynn Barber — 20 November 2005
- 50NewsClarkson and Morgan in tabloid tussle17 March 2004
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- 66NewsVideo from 2003 shows Piers Morgan talking about phone hackingMatilda Battersby — 28 November 2012
- 68NewsKey moments from the Leveson InquiryITV News — 28 November 2012
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- 77Harry wins 15 claims in phone-hacking case against Mirror publisherSean Coughlan — 15 December 2023
- 78Prince Harry v Mirror Group: key findings of the phone-hacking caseHaroon Siddique — 15 December 2023
- 79Piers Morgan denies knowing of phone hacking after judge rules he didAlexandra Topping — 15 December 2023
- 80Piers Morgan knew about phone-hacking at Daily Mirror, London judge findsSam Tobin et al. — 15 December 2023
- 81Judge accepts evidence that Piers Morgan knew about phone hacking at The MirrorPilgrim Pilgrim — 15 December 2023
- 82Piers Morgan's job is safe despite phone hacking ruling, News UK sources sayAdam Sherwin — 15 December 2023
- 84Top judge says anyone who lied to phone hacking inquiry should be prosecutedKate Devlin — 16 December 2023
- 85Steve Coogan: Prince Harry's hacking case is 'start of something'James Gregory — 16 December 2023
- 86BREAKING: Prince Harry successful in phone hacking claims against Mirror - Hacked OffNathan Sparkes — 15 December 2023
- 87NewsPiers Morgan clinches Press Gazette dealJemima Kiss — Journalism.co.uk — 13 June 2005
- 88NewsPiers Morgan turns proprietor with purchase of Press GazetteJulia Day — 28 May 2005
- 89NewsBig titles boycott Morgans organ press awardsRoy Greenslade — 24 January 2006
- 90NewsPress Gazette now in administrationRoy Greenslade — 6 November 2006
- 91"Britain's first national newspaper for children to launch Friday", Associated Press, 4 May 2006
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- 93NewsPiers Morgan launches children's newspaperIan Burrell — 1 May 2006
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- 95NewsPiers Morgan joins Mail Online as US editor-at-largeJason Deans — 30 September 2014
- 96JudgesThe Pride of Britain Awards — Trinity Mirror Group
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- 99News'Red Nose apprentice' Morgan firedPA Entertainment — 16 March 2007
- 100Sandbanks: Piers Morgan meets Dorset's mega-richITV — 10 January 2008
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- 102NewsReview: Piers Morgan in... Dubai (ITV) and Jamie Saves Our Bacon (Channel 4)John Preston — 30 January 2009
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- 104NewsSharon Osbourne: 'I quit X Factor because of Danni Minogue'Urmee Khan — 16 February 2009
- 105NewsCheryl Cole to Piers Morgan: show me some love13 October 2010
- 106NewsPiers Morgan's Life Stories; Live FA Cup Football; A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas; CasualtyDavid Chater et al. — 6 March 2010
- 107NewsPiers Morgan signs on as Larry King replacementMedia Spy — 9 September 2010
- 108NewsPiers Morgan takes over in Larry King chatshow slotJason Deans — 8 September 2010
- 110Piers Morgan Says CNN Show Has Been CanceledErik Hayden — 23 February 2014
- 111NewsPiers Morgan and CNN Plan End to His Prime-Time ShowDavid Carr — 24 February 2014
- 112NewsPiers Morgan handed permanent role on Good Morning Britain14 October 2015
- 113NewsSusanna Reid in 'constant battle' with Piers Morgan19 June 2018
- 115NewsHollyoaks storm week to feature Piers Morgan and Carol Kirkwood cameos18 October 2018
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- 128NewsPiers Morgan Condemns Donald Trump Over Britain First RetweetsDaniel Welsh — 29 November 2017
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- 135NewsPiers Morgan: Trump 'is failing the American people' – CNN Video20 April 2020
- 136NewsPiers Morgan slams President Trump for unfollowing him on TwitterVickie Scullard — 27 April 2020
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- 142NewsPiers Morgan: 'Do I genuinely feel a pathological hatred of vegan sausage rolls? No'Simon Hattenstone — 12 October 2020
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- 146NewsCampaigners blast Piers Morgan's 'bullying' as they urge GMB boycott amid racism debateEwan Somerville — 17 January 2020
- 147NewsInterview: Piers Morgan on coronavirus and turning against TrumpDecca Aitkenhead — 9 May 2020
- 148NewsPiers Morgan storms off Good Morning Britain after Alex Beresford condemns him for 'trashing' Meghan MarkleLouise Chilton — 9 March 2021
- 149NewsPiers Morgan leaving 'Good Morning Britain' after storming off set over his attacks on MeghanOliver Darcy — 9 March 2021
- 151NewsITV boss slaps down Piers Morgan in Meghan interview rowBen Woods et al. — 9 March 2021
- 152NewsPiers Morgan quit Good Morning Britain after Meghan complaint10 March 2021
- 153NewsPiers Morgan stands by Meghan criticism after Good Morning Britain exit10 March 2021
- 154NewsAndrew Neil would be 'delighted' to talk to Piers Morgan about GB News role10 March 2021
- 155NewsAndrew Neil: GB News, my war on woke and the problem with Piers MorganSusannah Butter — 8 June 2021
- 156NewsITV loses £200m in market value as Piers Morgan quits Good Morning BritainMark Sweney — 10 March 2021
- 157NewsSteve Coogan calls Piers Morgan 'symptomatic' of everything that's wrong with UK mediaStuti Mishra — 11 March 2021
- 158NewsEndgame pulled from Dutch bookshops after royal who 'questioned' Archie's skin colour 'named'James Robinson — 29 November 2023
- 159NewsPalace considers legal action after Piers Morgan names 'royal racists'Victoria Ward et al. — 30 November 2023
- 160Piers Morgan defends his decision to name the alleged 'royal racists' live on air. "It was entirely lawful what I did." "I took a view it was ridiculous that British people couldn't be aware of this information." @piersmorgan #PMUPiers Morgan Uncensored — 30 November 2023
- 161NewsPiers Morgan criticised for laughing as Good Morning Britain guest swore on airMark Sweney — 15 June 2015
- 162NewsOfcom clears Piers Morgan over Christianity questions on Good Morning Britain11 April 2016
- 163NewsRoyally milking it: race row after queen's grandson stars in Chinese ad22 January 2020
- 165NewsOfcom investigates Morgan over comments he made about Duchess of Sussex's mental healthMark Sweney — 9 March 2021
- 166NewsPiers Morgan to leave 'Good Morning Britain' after 41,000 complaints over Meghan remarksDoha Madani — 9 March 2021
- 168NewsDuchess of Sussex has complained to Ofcom over Piers Morgan comments12 March 2021
- 169NewsPiers Morgan's Meghan comments break Ofcom complaints record17 March 2021
- 170NewsOfcom clears Piers Morgan over Meghan comments on Good Morning Britain1 September 2021
- 173NewsPiers Morgan bans 'tedious little man' Hugh Grant from CNN show18 May 2011
- 174Piers Morgan: I wouldn't interview Madonna if she begged meAlex Fletcher et al. — 6 September 2014
- 178NewsJohn Cleese in Twitter row with Piers MorganNadia Khomani — 5 June 2015
- 179NewsJohn Cleese reignites Twitter feud with 'awful creep' Piers MorganAdam Sherwin — 2 May 2017
- 180NewsPiers Morgan brands John Cleese 'hypocrite' in angry clash over Jimmy KimmelJacob Stolworthy — 19 September 2025
- 181NewsPiers Morgan just accused Ewan McGregor of being 'paedophile-loving hypocrite'Maya Oppenheim — 24 January 2017
- 182NewsEwan McGregor and Piers Morgan row over Good Morning Britain appearance24 January 2017
- 183NewsPiers Morgan: 'I'm just putting opinions out there. It's my job'Decca Aitkenhead — 28 January 2018
- 184NewsPiers Morgan joining new channel talkTV where he will present 'global show'Chris Robertson — 16 September 2021
- 185NewsTalkTV ratings sink as viewers tune out Piers MorganBen Woods — 3 May 2022
- 186Piers Morgan wins Scoop of the Year at SJA'sFinley Chung — 7 March 2023
- 187Piers Morgan 'thanks' Meghan Markle after winning Interview of the Year award: 'I wouldn't be standing here'Meredith Clark — 28 June 2023
- 188Piers Morgan to move TalkTV show Uncensored to YouTube9 February 2024
- 190Piers Morgan Returning to U.K. TV With 'Uncensored' YouTube Show Highlights on Paramount's 5Georg Szalai — Hollywood Reporter — 5 September 2025
- 192No, Piers Morgan is not impartial on Israel-PalestineMohamad Elmasry — 8 Nov 2023
- 194NewsPiers Morgan: Hack of the dayIan Burrell — 13 February 2010
- 195NewsRare photo of Piers Morgan and his 3 handsome sons revealed on Loose Women27 March 2019
- 196NewsPiers Morgan marries Celia Walden25 June 2010
- 198First Glimpse Of Piers Morgan's Daughter EliseCelebrity Baby Scoop — 27 November 2012
- 199Piers Morgan's three mansion life after making £22m in one yearLottie Gibbons by Frances Kindon — 2021-04-03
- 200News10 years of the Segway... and the celebrities who come a cropper on them4 December 2011
- 201Morgan had broken ribs in 'Talent' finalBeth Hilton — Digital Spy — 23 August 2007
- 202NewsPiers Morgan, Feather Duster: CNN must be having second thoughts.Charles C. W. Cooke — 21 May 2012
- 203NewsPiers Morgan hospitalized after suffering fallBrendan Morrow — 2026-01-18
- 204NewsPiers Morgan breaks hip after tripping in London restaurantNeil Johnston — 2026-01-18
- 205News'Wenger fails again' – Piers Morgan scathing of Arsenal boss after David Ospina howler14 October 2015
- 206NewsPiers Morgan 'hurt' after Arsenal legend Bob Wilson questions his support for the Gunners and labels him a 'pompous individual'Jack de Menezes — 26 February 2015
- 207NewsAaron Ramsey 'well within his rights' to refuse handshake with Arsenal fan Piers Morgan, says Ian WrightSimon Rice — 28 April 2015
- 208NewsPiers Morgan declares his political allegiance ahead of the vote and it's... unexpectedJenn Selby — 7 May 2015
- 209NewsPiers Morgan reveals how he voted in this year's General Election25 December 2019
- 212As an Irish Catholic, I find the people offended by this deeply offensive.Piers Morgan
- 214NewsPiers Morgan on Trump, Twitter and the power of prayerHenry Mance — 15 March 2017
- 215Five wild moments from Piers Morgan's interview with far-right commentatorCharlotte Hazard — 2025-12-09
- 216NewsEarl Spencer apologises to Piers Morgan over 'incorrect assumption'Jamie Grierson — 2026-09-22
- 218BookSecret LivesPiers Morgan — Blake — 1991
- 219BookPrivate Lives of the StarsPiers Morgan — Angus and Robertson — 1991
- 220BookTo Dream a Dream: Amazing Life of Phillip SchofieldPiers Morgan — Blake — 1992
- 221Book"Take That": Our StoryPiers Morgan — Boxtree — 1993
- 222Book"Take That": On the RoadPiers Morgan — Boxtree — 1994
- 223BookVa Va Voom!: A Year with Arsenal 2003–04Piers Morgan — Methuen — 2004
- 224BookThe Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous DecadePiers Morgan — Ebury Press — 2005
- 225BookDon't You Know Who I Am?Piers Morgan — Ebury Press — 2007
- 226BookGod Bless America: Misadventures of a Big Mouth BritPiers Morgan — Ebury Press — 2009
- 227BookShooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George ClooneyPiers Morgan — Gallery Books — 2013
- 228BookWake Up: Why the World Has Gone NutsPiers Morgan — Harper Collins — 2020
- 229BookWoke Is Dead: How Common Sense Triumphed in an Age of Total MadnessPiers Morgan — Harper Collins — 2025