no i believe in freedom of speech i
believe in the right to
be allowed to have an opinion uh if
people want to believe meghan markle
that's entirely their right
so this all started on monday morning
when good morning britain was dominated
by that oprah winfrey interview piers
morgan
during the show made it very clear that
he said he did not believe a word of
what meghan markle had said
saying if she read him a weather report
he wouldn't believe it and after the
show
he took to social media and called her a
pinocchio princess
now by the end of the day the mental
health charity mind had released a
statement
saying they were deeply concerned by
what had happened in the show
and this is very awkward for itv because
they have this campaign get britain
talking
in which mind wear a partner so
on tuesday's show piers morgan was back
clashed with a fellow presenter alex
beresford the weather guy
and actually walked off set for 10
minutes now
piers morgan's done things like that
before on good morning but
people didn't read too much into that
but the story gathered momentum
throughout the day by the afternoon
ofcom who are the regulatory body for tv
had received more than 41 000 complaints
about what he'd said on the show on
monday
that made it the second most complained
about tv show
in history behind celebrity big brother
in 2007 when shilpa shetty
and jade goody uh had a head-to-head in
those accusations of bullying
i mean that figure will almost certainly
be overtaken today so we are talking
about the most what is going to be the
most complained about
tv show in history dame caroline mccall
who's itv's boss was speaking to the
press yesterday about financial results
but of course this absolutely dominated
all the press questions she said she
believed
what meghan markle said and the itv
takes
mental health very seriously so suddenly
you had the boss of
itv and arguably one of his biggest
stars
absolutely at loggerheads and then
after six o'clock yesterday came that
statement saying
piers morgan had decided the time is now
to leave good morning britain
and itv has accepted the decision and
nothing
further to add although the woke crowd
would have thought
they think that they've cancelled me i
think they'll be
rather disappointed when i re-emerge
they're a re-emergent i would call it a
temporary hibernation but
of course my opinions remain my opinion
they can't sign
you