Piers Morgan Joins Fox News Six Months After Storming Off British TV Over Meghan Markle
The bad news is that Piers Morgan is returning to U.S. TV screens. The worse news is that it’s part of a new mega-deal with Rupert Murdoch.
In a press release Thursday, Murdoch’s News Corps announced that Morgan will front a “global TV show” airing in the U.S. as well as Britain and Australia. As part of the deal, Morgan has also been handed weekly columns in Murdoch newspapers the New York Post and British tabloid The Sun, and he’ll write a book under News Corp’s HarperCollins.
It will be Morgan’s first TV job since he stormed off the set of Good Morning Britain in March, then resigned, following heavy criticism over crass remarks he made about Meghan Markle’s mental health struggles. It will be his first return to U.S. TV since his CNN talk show, Piers Morgan Live, was cancelled in 2014 due to underwhelming ratings.