PIERS Morgan's long-awaited hour-long interview with Tucker Carlson took place on Fox Nation last night.
The talk show host sensationally quit Good Morning Britain after slamming Meghan Markle for complaining about the royal family.
Tucker Carlson presented a one-hour interview with Piers Morgan on Monday exclusively on Tucker Carlson Today on Fox Nation – but it wasn't shown live in the UK.
A portion of the interview was to also air on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday, April 5 at 8pm/ET – which is 1am in the UK.
It was Piers Morgan’s "first wide-ranging on-camera interview since leaving ITV’s Good Morning Britain," according to Fox News.
His chat with Tucker encompassed "the reaction to his controversial comments surrounding the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and his thoughts on the current state of the media," it adds.
Piers also claimed his GMB co-host Susanna Reid was in 'the grip of fear' that an 'online mob' would force her off show after his shock exit.
Piers sensationally quit Good Morning Britain in the wake of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The next day, Susanna, 50, issued him a frosty farewell which he later admitted hit him hard.
“Susanna, my co-host for five years, is a good friend of mine.
“Honestly I think she was in the grip of fear, I think she was fearful that if she went too far saying nice things about me, the same thing might happen to her.”
He continued: “There would be a huge Twitter pile on, this is how it works, there was no real mainstream media interest in what I said on that Monday show.
“It was all being driven online by a very orchestrated mob.”
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MEGHAN'S CLAIMS IN OPRAH INTERVIEW 'IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE' SAYS MORGAN
Piers Morgan has continued to attack Meghan Markle, saying her claims in the Oprah Winfrey interview are “impossible to believe”.
During his hour-long interview on Fox News he said: “Seventeen different claims by the pair of them have now been proven to be either completely untrue or massively exaggerated or unprovable.
“I don’t understand why I should have to believe people who are not telling the truth.”
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BERESFORD LAUNCHED 'PREMEDITATED ATTACK' SAYSMORGAN
Piers Morgan has accused Alex Beresford of a “premeditated attack” during their Meghan Markle clash on Good Morning Britain ahead of his shock exit.
The 56-year-old journalist sensationally quit Good Morning Britain on March 9 in the wake of Meghan and Prince Harry's explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.
During his hour-long interview with US television host Tucker Carlson, Piers opened up about what happened between him and Alex.
“He is himself a bi-racial man so he wanted to explain so I said come on air, let's have the conversation.
“But the moment he came on air, he came with a pretty premeditated attack on me on a pretty personal level and frankly I just wasn't going to have it.
“I walked off… I was quite angry in the moment, he claimed that I have a personal vendetta against Meghan Markle, which I don't.”
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WHO SAID IT
Piers Morgan demanded last night that Meghan Markle reveal who specifically rejected her pleas for help over her mental health, before she quit as a frontline royal.
The former Good Morning Britain host insisted he was right not to believe the Duchess of Sussex in her Oprah interview, alleging that 17 of her claims in the chat have proved incorrect.
Piers, 56, was booted from his ITV morning show last month after expressing doubts over her bombshell allegations during the Oprah sit-down with Prince Harry.
In the interview Meghan, 39, had claimed that she was denied access to mental health care when she was feeling suicidal because she was told it “wouldn’t look good for the institution”.
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‘HIT JOB’
In his first TV interview since he departed Good Morning Britain, Piers Morgan spoke to US conservative news personality Tucker Carlson and stood by his comments, accusing the couple of the “most extraordinarily disingenuous smear, hit job” on the royal family.
And he said he has the backing of the public. Morgan said: “Old, young, black, white, it didn’t matter. They’ve been coming up to me in their droves all day every day.”
Morgan said people either agree with his comments on Meghan or defended his right to free speech.
“The British people have seen through this,” he told the Tucker Carlson Today programme on the Fox Nation streaming service.
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‘DIANA WOULD BE HORRIFIED’ OVER HARRY & WILLS SPLIT AND QUEEN SMEARS – MORGAN
Piers Morgan has claimed Princess Diana “would be horrified” over the split between her sons and the smears on the Queen.
The former Good Morning Britain made the claims in a long-awaited hour-long interview with Tucker Carlson that took place on Fox News.
He said: “You know I knew Princess Diana well. I think she would be horrified by the split between Harry and his brother.
“She would be horrified by the schism now between Harry and the royal family generally and by the appalling smearing of the queen which is already causing damage in some of the commonwealth countries.”
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MORGAN LABELS PRINCE HARRY A ‘WHINY BRAT’
Piers Morgan has lashed out at Prince Harry calling him a “whiny brat” in his interview with Fox News.
The former GMB host told the US news channel: “What’s happened to that guy? He’s turned into this whiny brat.
“In his mid-thirties, complaining that his dad isn’t still financing everything that he does. Complaining that he was cut off by daddy and his millions.
“Actually that wasn’t true either – It turns out Prince Charles had carried on financing him.
“And remember Harry inherited millions when his mother died.”
Read all the details here.
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PUBLIC FEUDS
Piers is known for being very opinionated – and he doesn't hold much back, even with celebrities.
In 2019, he accused Little Mix of using nudity to sell records, which landed him in trouble with 22-year-old singer Ariana Grande.
The journalist also accused Lady Gaga of only disclosing her struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder for her own personal benefit – which caused outrage on Twitter.
Author JK Rowling also found herself in the midst of a feud with Piers – in a Twitter argument which led Morgan to say: “This is why I've never read a single word of Harry Potter.”
In 2016, the journalist attacked celebrity Kim Kardashian West for sharing a nude photo, asking if she needed him to buy her some clothes.
But Kardashian rebuked: “Hey @piersmorgan never offer to buy a married woman clothes. That's on some Ashley Madison type s***.”
One of Piers' long-standing and most public feuds is with billionaire businessman Lord Alan Sugar – and the two men frequently attack each other on Twitter.
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BIG BUCKS
The TV presenter was reportedly earning around £1.1million a year for hosting Good Morning Britain.
Piers has also appeared on a number of other ITV shows, having previously pocketed around £1.44m per annum for his Piers Morgan Tonight programme.
He has held interviews with a range of celebrities, including a rare one-on-one with Cristiano Ronaldo.
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LIGHT UP
Ahead of the interview, he suggested Meghan might not exactly be in for an easy ride.
Paraphrasing Meghan use of the phrase “my truth” he said he was about to deliver the “actual truth”.
He then shared a picture of him sitting in his garden smoking a large cigar suggesting he looked like he was in a gangster flick.
Piers tweeted: “I’m thinking of movies for my next career move. Gangster genre.”
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GOING DOWN
Good Morning Britain has lost another 100,000 viewers after Piers Morgan quit the show.
Ratings plunged again the week of March 31 after the controversial broadcaster abruptly threw in the towel following a row over Meghan Markle's Oprah Winfrey interview.
The news and chat show saw 1million people tuning in on March 29th, compared to 1.1million on on the same day (March 22nd) last week.
However, they reached their lowest viewing figures on March 17th, when ratings crashed to 800,000.
That day marked a 40 per cent loss of its audience following Piers' departure nine days earlier.
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'NOT A JOURNALIST'
Piers Morgan has accused Alex Beresford of a 'premeditated attack' during their Meghan Markle clash on Good Morning Britain ahead of his shock exit.
Before his exit, he clashed on air with GMB weatherman Alex, 40, and now Piers has claimed his colleagues' comments were part of a “premeditated attack”.
He said: “He is the stand in weather guy, he's not a journalist, he's someone I've helped in his career like he has asked me to.
“He sent me a private message in which he expressed some concern about what he felt I wasn't really understanding about where Meghan Markle was coming from as a bi-racial woman.
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Piers Morgan claims his Good Morning Britain co-host Susanna Reid was in 'the grip of fear' that an 'online mob' would force her off show after his shock exit.
Piers sensationally quit Good Morning Britain in the wake of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The next day, Susanna, 50, issued him a frosty farewell which he later admitted hit him hard.
“Susanna, my co-host for five years, is a good friend of mine.
“Honestly I think she was in the grip of fear, I think she was fearful that if she went too far saying nice things about me, the same thing might happen to her.”
He continued: “There would be a huge Twitter pile on, this is how it works, there was no real mainstream media interest in what I said on that Monday show.
“It was all being driven online by a very orchestrated mob.”
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GLOBAL DOMINATION
Piers Morgan has teased his future plans for 'global domination' after his shock Good Morning Britain exit.
The 56-year-old journalist sensationally quit Good Morning Britain on March 9 in the wake of Meghan and Prince Harry's explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Since then, his fans have launched a petition to get him reinstated on the show, while others are desperate to know what he will do next.
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AN INNOCENT QUESTION
Piers Morgan slammed Meghan Markle on Tucker Carlson Today for “accusing the Queen and the Monarchy and the institution as being racist," adding "that's really what was going down here.”
Piers said that if the question was as “innocent” as somebody saying “given Meghan's father is white, her mother's black, what color would the baby be” that he believes this would be an “innocent question.”
However, he said that if it were “loaded with a sense of derogatory tone or concern, then it becomes racism.”
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ROYAL ROW
Piers Morgan has claimed that Princess Diana would be “horrified” by Harry’s “splitting with Prince William and smearing the Queen.”
He said: “What’s happened to that guy? He’s turned into this whiny brat.
“In his mid-thirties, complaining that his dad isn’t still financing everything that he does. Complaining that he was cut off by daddy and his millions.
“Actually that wasn't true either – It turns out Prince Charles had carried on financing him.
“And remember Harry inherited millions when his mother died.
“You know I knew Princess Diana well. I think she would be horrified by the split between Harry and his brother.
“She would be horrified by the schism now between Harry and the royal family generally and by the appalling smearing of the queen
which is already causing damage in some of the commonwealth countries.”
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NOT SHARON HER SEAT
The Talk “will not replace Sharon Osbourne anytime soon,” as producers focus on “addressing her sudden exit” to viewers in the first show back from the month-long hiatus.
CBS announced Sharon, 68, quit The Talk after her on-air fight with co-host Sheryl Underwood earlier this month, as she received backlash for “racially insensitive” comments while she defended her friend Piers Morgan’s harsh criticism of Meghan Markle.
The Sun can exclusively reveal The Talk currently has no plans to find a new host to join Sheryl, Carrie Ann Inaba, Amanda Kloots and Elaine Welteroth.
A source told The Sun: “The show will return to air without a fifth host.”
“Mrs. O is irreplaceable. She is a unique, outspoken talent that doesn't exist anywhere else. There is no obvious heir apparent to take her seat right now.”
The source added that the show is also facing “issues of ratings and budget.”
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WHAT ABOUT SHERYL?
Piers, 56, appeared on Tucker Carlson Today to touch on many different topics, including Sharon's exit from the CBS program.
He said: “… [Sharon] was taken down very deliberately, and it was all because she dared to tweet that I was entitled to my own opinion. And because she said that on Twitter she was attacked on her own show by her cohosts who said that that effectively was her supporting someone who said 'racist' things.
“And when Sharon got annoyed and said, 'what did he say that was racist,' they couldn't say anything because I've never have… now Sharon's gone too.”
He continued: “I look at this cancel culture… it's a real thing – this woke mob…”
Piers also recalled Sheryl's response when she learned that comedian George Lopez said “racist things,” and “abused a young black woman…”
He said: “[Sheryl wasn't outrage]… she defended George Lopez on The Talk four days later so there's a real sickening hypocrisy. I'm staggered Sheryl Underwood is still on that show. How can you be on a show when you forcibly brand someone a racist? And when you're challenged about it you can't produce any evidence.
“Isn't that by the Sharon Osbourne scale of dismissal a fireable offense? I'd said so. But there lies the hypocrisy at the heart of this debate.”
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DROP SOME NAMES!
Piers demanded Meghan Markle “names royals who rejected her requests for help after claiming she was suicidal.”
Just six minutes into the hour-long bombshell interview, Carlson asked Morgan about Markle's suicidal claims.
“You're accusing two people in the palace of being unspeakably cruel simply to protect the brand of the Royal family, if that is true let's have the names of these people and let's go to them and ask them is this true,” Piers told Carlson.
“'Did you tell a suicidal woman, who told you she was suicidal, not to get help?' – because I find that impossible to believe.”
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NEED MENTAL HEALTH HELP?
There's been a lot of chat about mental health and suicide tonight, which can be very hard for some of us, so here are some helpful resources to use if you're having a tough time.
Suicide doesn't discriminate, touching the lives of people in every corner of society – from the homeless and unemployed to builders and doctors, reality stars and footballers.
Yet it's rarely spoken of, a taboo that threatens to continue its deadly rampage unless we all stop and take notice, now.
That is why The Sun launched the You're Not Alone campaign.
The aim is that by sharing practical advice, raising awareness and breaking down the barriers people face when talking about their mental health, we can all do our bit to help save lives.
Let's all vow to ask for help when we need it, and listen out for others… You're Not Alone.
If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support:
- CALM, http://www.thecalmzone.net, 0800 585 858
- Heads Together, http://www.headstogether.org.uk
- Mind, http://www.mind.org.uk, 0300 123 3393
- Papyrus, www.papyrus-uk.org, 0800 068 41 41
- Samaritans, http://www.samaritans.org, 116 123
- Movember, http://www.uk.movember.com
- Anxiety UK http://www.anxietyuk.org.uk, 03444 775 774 Monday-Friday 9.30am-10pm, Saturday/Sunday 10am-8pm
HALF OF PEOPLE 'DON'T CARE' THAT PIERS LEFT GMB
During his interview with Tucker, Piers argued the 'woke brigade' was only a small number and didn't represent the wider population who generally agreed with the former GMB host.
Research from Pipslay suggests while 47% of Brits believed Piers could not be faulted for his views, the vast majority was ambivalent that he'd left the morning show.
The majority – 48% of people did not care he'd left GMB, but the results were more split when it came to his comments about Meghan Markle's claims she felt suicidal while living in the UK.
47% said Piers could not be faulted for doubting the Duchess, but 35% said he should have been more sensitive and 18% were undecided.
SOUR LEMONS
Piers blasted Don Lemon for branding him a “racist” for his remarks about Meghan Markle, insisting he thought the CNN host “was a friend”.
Responding to Morgan's commentary in a March 16 broadcast, Lemon accused Morgan of commuting an “act of racism” by dismissing the duchess' claims.
When pushed by Carlson on the matter on Monday, an exasperated Morgan replied: “I’ve seen Don Lemon at CNN – the guy who sits in my old office, who I thought was a friend – actually say on his show that I’d committed an act of racism.
“But disbelieving someone, that’s an act of racism?”
In a later exchange, Morgan reiterated that he was “disgusted” that Lemon – who he again considered a friend – had accused him of being racist.
“That was really offensive to me,” Morgan said, highlighting that Lemon has recently authored a book about racism.
“To see him actually say this on his show that what I'd done was an act of racism was really offensive to me,” he said.
“As someone who worked at CNN and gave it everything I had for four years, I would like Don Lemon to think again about what he said about me on air.”
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'HOPE TO SEE YOU HERE'…. AT FOX NEWS?
As they wrap up the interview and shortly after Piers described his next move, Tucker says to him, “I hope to see you here”.
Does that mean Piers might be offered a job at Fox News soon, which will see him working back over the other side of the pond?
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW?
Piers is planning to take a few months which he does “every time something like this happens” and will use his down time to get fit because “breakfast TV is pretty punishing on the torso”.
He tells Tucker what will come next for the controversial host.
“I will scheme and plot the next stage of my global domination,” he only half-jokes.
“The media world is a wonderful world to be in.
“I don't see this not as a bad experience, but one of the best and most affirmative.”
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CHURCHILL'S HALF CIGAR
Piers dropped $5,000 for a half smoked cigar that once belonged to Sir Winston Churchill.
Churchill is Piers' hero, but it seems like a big wad of cash to drop for someone who has just lost their job….
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I WON'T BE CANCELLED
Piers is absolutely refusing to back down or apologise for his comments.
“I can look in the mirror… and know I acted I believe on the point of principle and it's cost me some big jobs, but they've always been honestly held opinions,” Piers tells Tucker.
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