British TV Host Can't Get Over Being Ghosted by Princess Meghan

So who exactly is that tool on British television who got himself bum-rushed out of a job over his ridiculous beef with Meghan Markle?  You might remember him from a short-lived stint on CNN over ten years ago-- the idiotic (and ethically-challenged) Piers Morgan, who seems to have made a name for himself over his public animosity towards Markle while simultaneously licking the proverbial ass of the rest of the royal family.

Piers Morgan first hit the big time when he was appointed by Rupert Murdoch as the editor of the British tabloid News of the World in January 1994, a post he held for only 16 months after he violated the U.K.'s editors code of conduct and was pushed out by Murdoch himself.

Morgan then became editor of the Daily Mirror in late 1995.  Within a year, he was forced to apologize on national television for publishing the headline (rendered in all upper case) "Achtung Surrender! For You Fritz Ze Euro Championship Is Over" on June 25, 1996, the day before England lost to Germany in the Euro '96 football semi-final.

In 2002, Morgan was found to have violated the U.K. Editors Code of Conduct yet again for secretly buying stock in a computer company that the Mirror had recommended as a "buy" in its financial section.  It was later revealed the Morgan had emptied his bank account in executing the transaction and bought the shares in his wife's name.  Morgan was fired as editor of the Mirror two years later for authorizing the publication of fake photographs of British soldiers purportedly torturing Iraqi prisoners. To this day, Morgan has refused to apologize or admit the photos were faked, even though the Mirror later admitted they were a hoax.

The following year, Morgan (in partnership with a friend) acquired the Press Gazette.  The paper was court-ordered into administrative receivership by the end of 2006.  In 2007, Morgan was filmed falling off a Segway, breaking three ribs.  Four years prior, a Mirror headline had mocked former U.S. President George W. Bush for falling off a Segway, saying "You'd have to be an idiot to fall off wouldn't you, Mr. President?"

Morgan next focused on a television career, most notably appearing as a judge on Britain's Got Talent, winning the 2008 celebrity edition of Donald Trump's reality show, and then following Larry King on CNN as host of its live talk show.  After three years, Morgan's CNN show was cancelled due to poor ratings.  Shortly thereafter, Morgan returned to the U.K. to begin his stint as co-host of Good Morning Britain.  His tenure was marked by controversy and tumultuous relationships with his co-presenters.

In 2011, Morgan got caught up in the government Inquiry into Britain's phone-hacking scandal.  He initially testified that he had no reason to believe that phone hacking had occurred at the Mirror while he was editor.  British political blogger Paul Staines alleged that while editor of the Daily Mirror in 2002, Morgan published a story concerning the affair of Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson while knowing it to have been obtained by phone hacking.   In 2012, Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman testified that he had lunch with Morgan in September 2002 during which Morgan outlined the means of hacking into a mobile phone.   The official findings of the inquiry were eventually released, in which Lord Justice Leveson said that Morgan's testimony under oath on phone hacking was "utterly unpersuasive".

During his tenure at Good Morning Britain, Morgan has been the subject of hundreds of thousands of complaints to the U.K.'s television regulatory authority.  He gained particular infamy when he became openly hostile to Meghan Markle after she ended their friendship in 2016.  Initially, Markle and Morgan had become platonic friends over social media, beginning in 2015.   After she began dating Prince Harry, she wisely cut off communications with Morgan, who (by that time) had a long history of shady practices, as well as trading off his relationships with his celebrity acquaintances.

For a while, Morgan talked in good humor over his short-lived relationship with Markle.  Just before her wedding to Harry, Morgan said that Markle's father was "foolish" and had 'only himself to blame' for missing his daughter's wedding day.  But just days later, he made a shocking U-turn and slammed his once good friend for not rushing to be with her sick father after he was unable to travel to her wedding following heart surgery.  "I still like Meghan, notwithstanding her disconcerting tendency to ‘ghost’ people when they’ve served their purpose," tweeted Morgan, who had not been invited to the wedding despite once enjoying declaring himself to be "great buddies" with Markle.

Relations became increasingly strained as Piers repeatedly laid into Meghan and Harry over the next few years.  When the royal couple announced they were stepping down as senior royals, Piers branded them "grasping, selfish, scheming Kardashian-wannabes."  Morgan's vitriol against Markle became so pointed that many have speculated that his bitterness was rooted in infatuation or (possibly) romantic feelings for her.  Whether or not that's true, there is no denying that he now loathes a woman whose race, beauty, demeanor and sensibility he was once attracted to.  After the Winfrey interview, Morgan called Meghan (and Harry) "the world’s most tone-deaf, hypocritical, narcissistic, deluded, whiny brats".

The day after the Winfrey interview aired in Britain, Morgan was called out on Good Morning Britain by his co-host Alex Beresford for his relentless attacks on Markle.  “I understand that you don’t like Meghan Markle — you’ve made it so clear a number of times on this program.  And I understand you’ve got a personal relationship with Meghan Markle or had one and she cut you off,” Beresford said. “She’s entitled to cut you off if she wants to. Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? I don’t think she has, but yet you continue to trash her.”  Morgan stunned viewers by walking off the set during the live broadcast, saying, “OK, I’m done with this.”  The next day, he resigned.  Let's hope he gets over Meghan-- after all, she's more than 15 years his junior and she does have a husband, I might add.  God save the drama queen!