Piers Morgan is a journalist and TV personality who was a judge on Britain's Got Talent between Series 1 and Series 4. He left in order to host a CNN chat show in the USA in 2011, yet this was cancelled in 2014 after three years on air due to poor ratings, potentially caused by his unpopular opinions on gun control which made him an unpopular figure with the National Rifle Association. This marked the second time he was sacked or had resigned from a job, as in 2004, he was sacked from his position as an editor for the Daily Mirror due to publishing images of British soldiers mistreating prisoners in Iraq which later turned out to be forged, causing the Daily Mirror to issue an apology wherein they stated the images were a hoax, however Piers refused to apologise and instead stated that the abuse showcased in the forged images were similar to the kind of abuse that the British Army faced in Iraq at the time.
He later did several interviews with Donald Trump, and began a feud with Lord Alan Sugar. Between 2015 and 2021, he served as a host on Good Morning Britain before being resigning in March 2021 due to his controversial views surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's interview with Oprah Winfrey, as in order to retain his job he was told he would have to apologise which was something he was not prepared to do.[1] In 2019, he captained the World XI team (in reality co-captained, however Harry Redknapp captained but allowed Morgan to come up with the team tactics) in that respective years match of Soccer Aid For UNICEF.
Judging Character[]
Piers was the first judge to ever press the red buzzer on BGT. Typically if any judge was to buzz, Piers would be the first. He usually provided blunt, honest criticism and made sure to tell acts that they needed to step up their game. In the Semi-Finals, Piers would usually buzz acts that have disappointed him, or broken a promise they made in the auditions (like Vizage where he told them not to sing in the audition, and they still sang in the live show, or Good Evans where he made clear that he thought Elliott was the star and they needed to ditch the parents, yet the parents were still present in the live show). Despite statistically being the strictest judge in the show's history, he would often praise an act the most if he thought it was good, and (contrast to America's Got Talent), he would occasionally allow joke acts to carry on, like Donald Bell-Gam (usually at the expense of Simon Cowell).
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Trivia[]
- First act to vote 'Yes' to: Damon Scott
- First act to 'Buzz': David Williams
- First act to vote 'No' to: David Williams
- First act to 'Buzz; and still vote 'Yes' to: Cherry Red