There has also been talk of a return to the U. Fox News has been floated as a potential suitor, having given a platform to other opinionated Brits, such as Steve Hilton.
Morgan is friends with Donald Trump, which could be a valuable asset if he makes another run for the White House. There are other outstanding questions about whether Morgan has fully cut ties with ITV.
Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. All Rights reserved. Read the full story. Powered by WordPress. Rather than no-platforming, Morgan does the opposite. But that simply fuels the culture wars. Last year, the journalist Benjamin Butterworth came on the show to defend the notion that there are genders. Morgan ridiculed him , claiming he identified as a two-spirit penguin.
It felt as if he was punching down. He was trying to cancel me. And did he win that argument or did he make himself look a bit ridiculous? I think he made himself look a bit ridiculous.
When I mention it, he looks as close to contrite as I have ever seen him. That actually does stray into being a bit of a bully. You lose the argument when you do that. Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan, who grew up in Sussex, joined the Sun in his early 20s, dropped his double-barrelled name and ran the showbusiness column Bizarre. At 28, he was made editor of the News of the World; by 30, he was editing the Daily Mirror.
Morgan had a great run as editor of the Mirror — it was a lively red-top ferociously opposed to the Iraq war — then it all ended in disgrace. Three years later, Piers Morgan Live was axed. Morgan has a planet-sized ego, but unlike Trump he is not a pathological narcissist. That is what makes him fascinating: he is self-aware. Nor is he content to be a reactionary old git. He is not approaching his attack on wokery as a steel-toe-capped rightwinger, he insists.
I ran the Daily Mirror for 10 years. But his attack on wokeness goes way beyond JK Rowling. Take mental health, for example. He thinks that encouraging people to talk about it turns us all into bleating wimps. Life is bloody tough. It can seem incredibly insensitive, I say. Breakfast show co-host, Susanna Reid, recently admitted that in the early days working alongside Morgan made her cry. Relations had improved, she added, but the dynamic on the show was never easy, she said, in a recent interview.
Last year, Downing Street boycotted GMB for months after Morgan had engaged in a couple of combative interviews with care minister Helen Whateley, which critics described as bullying. Some of the skirmishes along the way were legendary — including a punchup nearly two decades ago with Jeremy Clarkson following a particularly boisterous night at the British Press Awards. But there were many examples of other more serious misjudgments.
An eight-year reign at the leftwing tabloid ended when he was sacked for publishing what turned out to be faked photographs that purported to show British soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees. He has continued to refer to her as "Princess Pinocchio" and was recently nominated for the National Television Award for best TV presenter.
Ofcom said: "Consistent with freedom of expression, Mr Morgan was entitled to say he disbelieved the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's allegations and to hold and express strong views that rigorously challenged their account. However, the regulator said it had concerns over his comments about suicide and mental health.
Ofcom "would have been seriously concerned" if he had not been challenged by co-hosts Susanna Reid and Chris Ship, which provided "adequate protection for viewers", it added. Morgan didn't refer to that part of Ofcom's report in a column about the ruling for the Mail , saying the overall decision "came down to an unequivocal and emphatic endorsement of my right to an opinion". He wrote: "It was preposterous that I had to leave a job I loved because I didn't believe a demonstrable liar.
Speaking later, he added: "The conclusion says I was entitled to not believe them ITV said it was Morgan's decision to leave GMB and it has no plans to invite him back to the programme, but it will keep working with him on his Life Stories series. The broadcaster welcomed Ofcom's decision. Ofcom's report added: "While we acknowledged that Mr Morgan's questions about the nature of racism had the potential to be highly offensive to some viewers, the conversations about race and racism in this programme provided open debate on the issues raised by the interview.
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