Hours after attacking the Good morning Great Britain set amid his hissyfit during Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, Piers Morgan left the program, ITV said on Tuesday.
“After discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan decided that now is the time to leave Good morning Great Britain, ” the British network said in a concise statement. “ITV accepted this decision and has nothing more to add.”
Earlier Tuesday, Morgan left the set of the British morning show when his colleague Alex Beresford called on him because of his relentless destruction of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.
Notably, Beresford brought up Morgan’s apparent disappointment that Markle stopped contacting him when she started dating Prince Harry.
“I understand that you don’t like Meghan Markle,” said Beresford. “You made that very clear on this show several times, and I understand that you had a personal relationship with Meghan Markle and she interrupted you. Did she say anything about you after she interrupted you? She has the right to interrupt you if she wants to. And yet you continue to destroy it. “
While Morgan played a great show when leaving the set during the morning live broadcast, Beresford described his actions as “pathetic” and “absolutely diabolical”.
Morgan’s co-star suggested comments that the former CNN host had made in the past about how Markle started dating Prince Harry shortly after the former actress went out for a drink with Morgan, suggesting that this was the basis of the animosity of Morgan. In an interview on a 2018 talk show, Morgan lamented that the future Duchess of Sussex had “fantasized” him, although they “had done brilliantly”.
Morgan’s relentless campaign against Markle – which spread across both sides of the Atlantic – included him casting doubt on the duchess’s claims that she experienced suicidal ideation and that the royal “aid institution” refused to help her.
“Who did you go to? What did they say to you? I’m sorry, I don’t believe a word of what she said, Meghan Markle, ”Morgan exclaimed in Monday’s edition of Good morning Great Britain. “I wouldn’t believe it if she read me a weather report.”
These comments, in particular, were criticized by British television regulator Ofcom, which launched an investigation into the program under its “harm and wrongdoing” rule after receiving tens of thousands of complaints about the program following Morgan’s comments.