PIERS Morgan has revealed a secret feud with a major TV star and branded them “two faced”.
The TalkTV host said the “vile” presenter is “much worse” than Phillip Schofield who announced over the weekend that he was stepping down from presenting This Morning.
“Phillip’s not the evil monster he’s being painted as,” he wrote in his latest column for The Sun.
“There are more than a few I would now cross continents to avoid.”
Piers then recalled his own speedy exit from Good Morning Britain in 2021 and said a former friend reached out to him with a sympathetic message, but refused to publicly back him, and then secretly begged ITV bosses to hire him as Piers’ replacement on GMB.
Piers shared the text message he received from the mystery star and penned: “I’m so sorry Piers, hope you’re OK mate, it’s outrageous what’s happened to you, and you have my total support.”
Piers continued: “This touching message of private solidarity, never repeated in public, would have carried slightly more weight if the same star hadn’t – as I later learned – also just texted a senior ITV executive applying for my job.
“I chuckled to myself at the brazen duplicity of this halo-clad household name who’d throw himself into my grave if he thought there was a Hello! magazine cover shoot possibility from it.
“But I wasn’t remotely surprised.
“I’d bet good money the exact same thing is happening to Phillip Schofield since he was sacked as This Morning presenter.”
Piers then namechecked Alex Beresford and Denise Welch as two TV stars he’d be happy never to see again.
He said: “Like GMB’s deputy stand-in weatherman Alex Beresford, who begged me for media advice then tried – and failed – to make a name for himself taking me down on my last show with a pre-rehearsed attack speech.
“Or the likes of Loose Women’s Denise Welch, a vile, spiteful hypocrite who makes a fortune from preaching about the need to ‘be kind’ but likes nothing better than spewing hateful foul-mouthed abuse at people on Twitter.”
Piers quit GMB after a heated arguement with Alex about the Duchess of Sussex.
Piers claimed he was “sickened” by Meghan for “trashing” the Royal Family as “white supremacists” during her interview with Oprah Winfrey, and didn’t believe she was driven to having suicidal thoughts.
He was asked to apologise and refused which “ended with him telling producers he would not host the show any more”.
A day after he quit Piers tweeted that “freedom of speech is a hill I’m happy to die on”.
