Piers Morgan explains his exit from GMB after remarks about Meghan Markle

Piers Morgan, who was fired from his popular British show last year after making controversial remarks about Meghan Markle, has called his exit a “farce.”

Morgan departed Good Morning Britain after a disagreement in which he declared in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last year that he didn’t ‘trust a word’ of Meghan’s assertions about the Royal Family.

On his new TalkTV shows, which premiere next Monday, the 57-year-old outspoken media personality aims to “uncancel the cancelled.”

Speaking ahead of its launch, he said: ‘I thought the whole thing was a farce and I’m delighted that actually, as a result of the farce, we’ve ended up with a whole network which is now dedicated to preventing that kind of farce from recurring.

Morgan said: “You shouldn’t be shamed or vilified or cancelled for having an opinion unless you genuinely are spewing hateful bigoted stuff.”

Reflecting on the incident, the host has said he now wants to ‘re-platform those who’ve been de-platformed in his new show.

‘I don’t intend to do that; I’ve never done that before in my broadcasting time. I want to be a broad church to any kind of view.’

He added: ‘I want to re-platform those who’ve been de-platformed. I want to uncancel those who have been cancelled. I want to basically make a point that cancels culture is as dangerous to society, in its own way, in terms of its attack on free speech and freedom of expression as coronavirus has been.’

Morgan’s remarks about Prince Harry’s love sparked more than 500,000 complaints, the most ever received by Ofcom, despite the media watchdog ruling that the show did not violate the broadcasting code.