Piers Morgan storms off Good Morning Britain
Piers Morgan stormed off Good Morning Britain this morning following a disagreement with colleague Alex Beresford.
The pair had been discussing Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's controversial Oprah Winfrey interview.
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The interview aired on Sunday night in America, and then the following night in the UK and Ireland.
On Monday morning's show, Piers spoke very critically of Meghan and Harry, and gave their interview a scathing review.
He believes they drew up, "a caricature portrait of our Monarchy and Royal family, which I think is contemptable."
Alex Beresford shares his opinion
Piers' colleague Alex Beresford joined the show this morning to share his opinion.
After a long discussion, he defended the couple, "They’ve had an overwhelming amount of negative press."
"You know, I watched the programme yesterday and, yes, they had some great press around the wedding, but what press is going to trash someone's special day?"
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He continued, "There was bad press around the engagement before the engagement, and everything that has followed since has been incredibly damaging, quite clearly, to Meghan’s mental health and also to Harry."
"And I hear Piers say William has gone through the same thing but, do you know what, siblings experience tragedy in their life and one will be absolutely fine and brush it off and the other will not be able to deal with it so strongly and that is clearly what has happened with Harry in this situation."
"...I understand that you don’t like Meghan Markle..."
Alex pointed out, "He walked behind his mother’s coffin at a tender, tender age in front of the globe."
"That is going to shape a young boy for the rest of his life, so I think we all need to take a step back, and I understand that you don’t like Meghan Markle, you’ve made it so clear a number of times on this programme…"
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He continued, "And I understand you’ve got a personal relationship with Meghan Markle or had one and she cut you off."
"She’s entitled to cut you off if she wants to."
"Has she said anything about you since she cut you off?"
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Alex answered his own question, "I don’t think she has but yet you continue to trash her…"
This was breaking point for Piers, who stood up and said, "OK, I’m done with this."
As he walked off set, he said, "Sorry, no… sorry, can’t do this…"
Piers Morgan just walked off the Good Morning Britain set (!!!) after co-presenter Alex Beresford defended Harry and Meghan and condemned Piers' treatment of them in yesterday's programming pic.twitter.com/mH75J8ND4O
— Chris Rickett (@chrisrickett) March 9, 2021
Following the incident, a Twitter user said, 'Surely Piers knows if you give it, you gotta be able to take it?'
Piers responded, 'Sure. I just prefer not to sit there listening to colleagues call me diabolical.'
