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born 1965 England
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is an English broadcaster, journalist, and former editor of the News of the World (1994–1995) and Daily Mirror (1995–2004) tabloid newspapers. He was a co-anchor of the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain from 2015 to 2021.
Also known as: Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan
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There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think that we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.
Right, now all you have to do – and I know it's hard because celebrities don't like doing anything for themselves – is actually change your security number.
There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
Bill O’Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you’re going to get.
Don't chase women, they will chase you… They are like horses in a pasture: if you don't go drooling over her, she is going to want to know why.
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
I like waging feuds [...] They get me going and make me perform better. I don't start them but I always finish them.
[On revealing a pop star's adultery] If X is singing about love and marriage, and sleeping with the nanny, then he deserves to be exposed.
[On journalism] It is full of lying, cheating, drunken, cocaine-sniffing, unethical people. It's a wonderful profession.
The Jimmy Savile scandal grows more horrific by the minute [...] I never met him... (Mail on Sunday column October 2012)
The liberals get what they want, which is a humorless void where nothing happens, where no one dare do anything, or laugh about anything, or behave in any way that doesn't suit their rigid way of leading a life. No thanks.
I've always made it a strict rule in life to ingratiate myself with three categories of people: newspaper owners, potential newspaper owners and billionaires.
I actually didn’t care that much about the [Jeremy] Clarkson stuff until he began behaving ridiculously, smacking me round the head. He’s perfectly entitled to smack me around the head, but the idea that smacking editors will help your PR is rather short-sighted.
As I've said before, I’m ashamed of some of the inappropriate language I used in The Sun thirty years ago about gay stars. They were different times, but that’s no excuse – it was offensive, it was wrong, and I apologise for it.
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