Piers Morgan Revisits Meghan Markle Controversy on ‘Good Morning Britain’: ‘I Was Hired to Be Controversial’

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K.J. Yossman Piers Morgan revisited his controversial departure from former employer ITV two years ago following comments he made about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, on his breakfast show “Good Morning Britain.” Morgan, who was taking part in a debate about news impartiality at the Royal Television Society conference on Thursday morning alongside Channel 4 News anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy, suggested he had been “invited to leave his job” after he cast doubt on comments Meghan had made about her mental health during her May 2021 interview with Oprah.

Posing the situation as a hypothetical — “Imagine members of the Royal Family make a series of allegations,” he said, “and one presenter stands up courageously and says ‘I think it’s a pack of lies'” — Morgan said his comments could be viewed as “due impartiality” in light of other presenters’ support of Meghan.

Yet despite that and the fact that U.K. media regulator Ofcom later found his comments were acceptable, ITV “invited” him to resign, he said. “I was completely free at ‘Good Morning Britain,'” Morgan said of his six years as the show’s main co-anchor. “I was hired to be a deliberately provocative controversialist.

In fact they got the rights to play ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ for my intro music which I don’t think was a sign I was going to be due impartial.” “For five years I expressed very strongly held opinions about everything and I never had Ofcom ruling against me.