Gogglebox To Cover Meghan Markle Interview And Piers Morgan Storming Off GMB
Gogglebox To Cover Meghan Markle Interview And Piers Morgan Storming Off GMB
As another week draws to a close, there’s plenty to look back on in the world of TV.
Gogglebox will air tonight at 9pm on Channel 4, as usual, and the sofa faces we’ve grown to know will be sharing their verdicts on the big talking points of the week – namely, the Harry and Meghan Oprah interview and Piers Morgan’s subsequent hissy fit on Good Morning Britain.
If you’ve somehow managed to completely disengage from the news/TV/social media this past week, then it might be a good time to catch up.
The reverberations from Harry and Meghan’s interview can still be felt now, after it aired in the US on Sunday and the UK on Monday.
In it, Meghan claimed there were concerns about what colour her baby Archie’s skin would be and said she had experienced suicidal thoughts. She also addressed rumours of her rift with Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge.
But Piers was less than impressed with the interview, which he proceeded to slam on Good Morning Britain.
He said: “I’m angry to the point of boiling over today, I’m sickened by what I’ve just had to watch.
“This is a two-hour trashathon of our Royal Family, of the monarchy, of everything the Queen has worked so hard for, and it’s all being done as Prince Philip lies in hospital. They trash everybody.”
He continued: “They basically make out the entire Royal Family are a bunch of white supremacists, by dropping this race bombshell… They didn’t name which one it was, they just throw it out there, so it could be any member of the Royal Family.
“And Harry says, ‘I’ll never say who it was.’ Well, you better say it fast.”
However, it was Piers’ dismissal of Meghan’s suicidal thoughts which saw him come under fire: from viewers, mental health charities and his then-colleague Alex Beresford, who called out his behaviour on Tuesday, prompting Piers to storm off.
Alex said: “This is absolutely diabolical behaviour.
“Piers spouts off on a regular basis and we all have to sit and listen. Six thirty to seven o’clock yesterday was incredibly hard to watch – incredibly hard to watch.”
It was announced later that day that Piers and Good Morning Britain would be parting ways.
So there shouldn’t be your usual side of controversy when you sit down for breakfast next week.