Hours after the storm stormed Good morning Britain amid his fit over Meghan Markle’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, Piers Morgan discontinued the program, ITV said Tuesday.
“After talks with ITV, Piers Morgan decided that now was the time to leave Good morning Britain, ” said the British network in a brief statement. “ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add.”
Earlier Tuesday, Morgan pulled off the British morning show when his co-star Alex Beresford called him about his relentless apostasy from Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.
Beresford in particular raised Morgan’s disappointment that Markle no longer contacted him when she went out with Prince Harry.
“I understand you do not like Meghan Markle,” Beresford said. ‘You’ve made it so clear a few times about this program, and I understand that you had a personal relationship with Meghan Markle and that she cut you off. Did she say anything about you after she cut you off? She is entitled to cut you off if she wishes. And yet you continue to throw her in the trash. ‘
While Morgan made a big show of the series during the live morning broadcast, Beresford described his actions as ‘pathetic’ and ‘absolutely diabolical’.
Morgan’s co – star alluded to comments made by the former CNN host in the past about how Markle dated Prince Harry shortly after the former actress went out for a drink with Morgan, suggesting that this is the basis of Morgan’s hostility was. In a talk show interview in 2018, Morgan lamented that the future Duchess of Sussex had ‘shocked’ him, even though they ‘went on brilliantly’.
Morgan’s relentless vitriol campaign against Markle – spread across both sides of the Atlantic – included doubts about the duchess’ allegations that she had experienced suicidal thoughts and that the royal ‘aid agency’ refused to assist her.
‘Who did you go to? What did they tell you? I’m sorry, I do not believe a word she said, Meghan Markle, ‘Morgan exclaimed on Monday’s issue of Good morning Britain. “I would not believe it if she read me a weather report.”
This comment came particularly under fire from British television regulator Ofcom, which has launched an investigation into the program under its “damage and violation” rule after receiving tens of thousands of complaints about the program following Morgan’s comments.