Piers Morgan says he suffered ‘worst moment of his career’ on The Chase when he turned ‘as stupid as a Love Island contestant’
PIERS Morgan says he regrets filming a Good Morning Britain special edition of The Chase – because it made him feel extra stupid.
The telly star says he was asked by his bosses at ITV to appear on the Bradley Walsh-hosted quiz show, but collapsed under pressure when it came to get the answers right.
The episode doesn’t air until November – so Piers – who appeared on the show alongside Susanna Reid – isn’t giving too much away, but admits he didn’t do as well as he’d have liked.
Writing in his Mail on Sunday column, he said: “I briefly showed the intellectual firepower of a Love Island contestant, though it will be interesting to see how many people know the answer to my supposedly simple first question (ironically, the soft ball they toss you to calm your nerves…) that threw me into a temporary but horribly violent three-question tailspin like the one my other movie role model Maverick plunged into during Top Gun, which killed Goose.”
He also revealed that the studio audience booed him when he arrived.
Piers wrote: “My uneasy feeling of impending doom wasn’t helped by the audience greeting my arrival with a chorus of pantomime villainstyle boos and jeers, after roaring their ecstatic approval at my co-workers.
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“‘I’ve never seen that happen in over 1,400 episodes,’ cackled host Bradley Walsh. ‘Shall we do it again?’
“The crowd duly booed even louder. I can’t say exactly what happened next because the episode doesn’t air until November.
“But I can disclose that I suffered the single worst moment of my entire 15-year career in live television at the start of my Cash Builder round (where contestants get £1,000 for every correct answer to rapid fire questions) when my brain froze so badly I felt sweat bursting through every pore and my innards start to self-combust with terror.”
The Good Morning Britain presenter joked “when in Rome” after inhaling on the joint with his sporting hero.
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