PIERS Morgan is taking a break from Good Morning Britain. Here’s why the breakfast TV presenter won’t be on our screens for a while and when he’ll be back… Why isn’t Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain today? According to Piers Morgan himself, he’s taking a step back from presenting duties in order to “lie […]
PIERS Morgan is taking a break from Good Morning Britain.
Here’s why the breakfast TV presenter won’t be on our screens for a while and when he’ll be back…
According to Piers Morgan himself, he’s taking a step back from presenting duties in order to “lie under a palm tree”.
He took to Twitter to announce he’d be taking a break from the show following calls that he should be fired from the ITV breakfast show.
Viewers were left infuriated after he launched an n-air rant about gender last month.
As the argument rages on, Piers responded to a tweet claiming he was “taken off air”, saying he has taken himself off – to go on holiday.
The former newspaper editor said: “When you say ‘taken off air’, I think you mean ‘has taken himself off air to go lie under a palm tree in Beverly Hills.'”
Highly unlikely – this break was probably in the diary for months.
The star often goes on holiday to Los Angeles and also never works on Thursdays and Fridays.
However, there actually is a Change.org petition, which currently has 23,000 signatures, demanding he be fired for his “dangerous and dehumanising” views towards transgender people.
Good Morning Britain responded by launching a poll, asking followers whether he should be fired.
Almost half a million people voted, with 60 per cent of the 482,270 fans opting to get rid of him.
But Piers joked the poll results actually helped his career by bagging him a pay raise.
He’ll certainly have a lot to think about under that palm tree.
Of course he is.
Piers will be back behind his desk alongside Susanna Reid in three weeks’ time.
Until then, Kate Garraway and Ben Shepherd will be filling to keep his seat warm.
