After Oprah’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry aired in the U.S. on Sunday night, Piers Morgan used his early-morning block of ITV’s Good Morning Britain to go on a tirade, which was met with quite a bit of resistance online. Nevertheless, the presenter was characteristically defiant, repeating his claims on Twitter. “Lots of people on here want me fired for expressing my opinion on the Pinocchio Princess,” he wrote. “If you want to join them, there are various petitions still doing the rounds from the last few times you’ve all tried, and failed, to have me fired for saying what I think.”
On Tuesday morning’s edition of the program, after the interview had aired in the U.K., Morgan was back at it again, and when a colleague, weatherman Alex Beresford, criticized his comments, he stormed off the set. Hours later, ITV announced that Morgan was leaving the show, where he had been an anchor since 2015, and the British media watchdog Ofcom announced that it had received more than 41,000 public complaints about Morgan’s comments. On Wednesday morning, royal reporter and biographer Omid Scobie tweeted Meghan herself had written to the head of ITV, and that the letter may have played a role in Morgan’s departure:
“I’m told that the letter was written by the duchess for one reason only,” Scobie added, “to raise and share concern over the serious impact that Morgan’s comments could have on anyone struggling with their mental health or…
