Hours after storming the Good morning Great Britain Amid his sizzling demeanor over Meghan Markle’s all-encompassing interview with Oprah Winfrey, Piers Morgan has left the program, ITV said Tuesday.
“After discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good morning Great Britain the British network said in a succinct statement. “ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing more to add.”
Earlier Tuesday, Morgan was marching away from the UK morning show when his co-star Alex Beresford called him out for his brutal destruction of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.
In particular, Beresford brought up Morgan’s apparent disappointment that Markle did not contact him when she started dating Prince Harry.
“I understand you don’t like Meghan Markle,” Beresford said. “You made it clearer several times on this show, and I understand that you had a personal relationship with Meghan Markle and she cut you off. Did she say anything about you after she cut you off? She has the right to shut you down if she wants to. And yet you keep throwing her away. “
While Morgan made a big show of leaving the set during the live morning broadcast, Beresford described his actions as “pathetic” and “absolutely diabolical”.
Morgan’s co-star hinted at comments the former CNN presenter had made in the past about how Markle began dating Prince Harry shortly after the former actress dated Morgan for a drink, suggesting this was the basis of Morgan’s animosity. In a talk show interview in 2018, Morgan complained that the future Duchess of Sussex had “ghosted” him, even though they “got along great”.
Morgan’s relentless campaign of vitriol against Markle – which has spread across both sides of the Atlantic – has, among other things, cast doubt on the Duchess’s claims that she was experiencing suicidal thoughts and that the royal ‘institution for aid’ refused to help her.
“Who have you been to? What did they say to you? I’m sorry, I don’t believe a word she said, Meghan Markle,” Morgan exclaimed on the Monday edition of Good morning Great Britain“I wouldn’t believe it if she read me a weather report.”
These comments have come under particular fire from UK television regulator Ofcom, which has launched an investigation into the show under its “harm and violation” rule after receiving tens of thousands of complaints about the program in response to Morgan’s comments. .