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11m Brits watch Harry & Meghan interview

Oprah interview ricochets onto Piers Morgan who leaves ITV after criticising Harry & Meghan.

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An average of 11.3 million British viewers watched Oprah with Meghan & Harry on ITV.

The bombshell interview attracted a 54% share of the UK television audience.

The numbers make it the most watched show in the UK this year by some distance, well ahead of The Masked Singer finale at 8.6m viewers in February.

The interview drew headlines around the world, and dominated British tabloids.

But yesterday Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan stormed off the set after a weatherman Alex Beresford called him out on his comments. Morgan had repeatedly accused the Duchess of Sussex of lying, acting and playing the victim as well as belittling her claims of mental anguish and racism.

Mental health charity Mind also said it would be talking to ITV over Morgan’s behaviour.

“I haven’t spoken to Piers myself,” but managing director, media and entertainment Kevin Lygo, ITV’s top programmer, had, ITV CEO Carolyn McCall said. “I know Kevin Lygo is speaking to him on a regular basis and has done so the last couple of days.”

Asked about Morgan’s storming off the set she said: “I didn’t actually see that.”

Updated:

“Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain,” the network said in a statement.

“ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add.”

An average of 17.1 million viewers watched the special in the USA.

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Source: Hollywood Reporter

7 Responses

    1. I saw a doco once that said after a fire at one of her palaces there was controversy over who should pay for the repair, the government or the Queen from her private funds. The government struck a deal with the royals to get them to monetise their assets so The Firm was created to do just that monetise the Royal Family. And from what I understood she sits in on meetings but doesn’t run anything to do with The Firm.

  2. Piers Morgan was one of those characters that you either love or hate. He certainly gave govt ministers a hard time and called out things as he saw them. He was never impressed about this royal match up, its worth digging a bit deeper on that one. When you think how boring, bland and repetitive breakfast tv can be, he certainly wasn’t boring…..

    1. Meghan and Piers were friends at some stage and they had a falling out (Meghan tends to cut people out of her life regularly)and Piers was harsh on her afterwards.

    2. He’s a shock jock. It’s his job to make controversial statements. Exactly the same way that the likes of Kyle Sandilands and Andrew Bolt do.

  3. geez. That’s a terse exit statement from ITV if ever there was one. None of the usual thanks or gushing quotes from the top brass and co-stars.

  4. “Are you being paid for this?” no. I’m sure they must have know what this interview would produce indirectly for them otherwise why would they do it?

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