Piers Morgan ‘thanks’ Meghan Markle after winning Interview of the Year award: ‘I wouldn’t be standing here’
Piers Morgan appeared to sarcastically reward Meghan Markle whereas accepting the award for Interview of the Year at the 2023 Tv and Radio Industries Membership (TRIC) Awards.
On Tuesday (27 June), the Piers Morgan Uncensored star was given the prestigious award for his unique sit-down interview with soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo throughout the ceremony held at London’s Grosvenor Home.
In his acceptance speech, Morgan referred to his long-standing feud with the Duchess of Sussex and credited her along with his success. “I wish to thank Meghan Markle as a result of, if you concentrate on it, with out her contribution to my profession I’d by no means have gone to TalkTV,” the journalist stated. “I’d by no means have been standing right here with this award.”
Morgan has been a long-time critic of the 41-year-old royal. Throughout Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, the mom of two opened up about having suicidal ideas whereas working as a senior member of the royal household. In response, the former Good Morning Britain anchor declared that he “didn’t imagine a phrase” of Markle’s psychological well being struggles.
His remarks acquired widespread backlash as individuals known as for Morgan to be fired from his place at ITV’s Good Morning Britain. He was fired days later after he refused to apologise for his feedback.
Morgan then returned to tv in 2022 along with his personal information and remark present, Piers Morgan Uncensored, on TalkTV. Since then, he has interviewed a number of controversial friends, together with Kanye West, Andrew Tate, and former US president Donald Trump.
This isn’t the first time Morgan has made a public gibe at Markle. In reality, he made the identical joke whereas accepting the award for Scoop of the Year at the Sports activities Journalism Awards simply three months prior.
“I’d additionally wish to thank Meghan Markle, with out whom there wouldn’t be a TalkTV Piers Morgan Uncensored,” he stated on stage. In accordance with journalists at the occasion, his comment was met with groans and different audible expressions of discomfort from the viewers.
Earlier this yr, Morgan went after Prince Harry following his ITV interview with Tom Bradby. Throughout the interview, Bradby referenced how the couple had instructed Winfrey that unnamed members of the royal household had raised “issues” over “how darkish” their son Archie’s pores and skin would be.
“In the Oprah interview, you accuse members of your loved ones of racism,” Bradby requested Harry, earlier than the prince interjected: “No. The British press stated that, proper? Did Meghan ever point out, ‘they’re racists’?”
Harry added that he wouldn’t describe the incident as racist, “having lived inside that household,” saying: “The distinction between racism and unconscious bias… the two issues are completely different.”
In response to Harry’s interview feedback, Morgan tweeted: “I appear to recall being compelled out of my job at @GMB for disbelieving Harry and Meghan’s unsubstantiated racism claims in opposition to the Royal Household.
“Now he’s lastly admitted there was no racism, two questions: a) Do I get my outdated job again? b) Why ought to we imagine a phrase they are saying?”
In a separate tweet, he added: “By no means seen an unhappier ‘completely happy man’ in my life. Prince Harry’s a bitter, delusional, paranoid, family-trashing halfwit exposing and exploiting the Royals’ most private secrets and techniques for gazillions while wanging on with jaw-dropping hypocrisy about media intrusion. He’s pathetic.”
