When is piers morgan leaving

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Image source, PA Media. Piers Morgan is a British TV presenter and journalist. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original tweet on Twitter. ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add. The channel confirmed to the BBC that his departure from the breakfast news show will take effect immediately but declined to say who would be replacing him on Wednesday. In a tweet on Wednesday morning Morgan said that he had reflected on his opinion on the Oprah interview and still did not believe Meghan, adding that "freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on".

I'm off to spend more time with my opinions," he said. Morgan's departure followed an on-air clash with weather presenter Alex Beresford, who criticised his colleague on Tuesday for "continuing to trash" the duchess, prompting Morgan to walk off set.

He returned within 10 minutes. Mental health charity Mind, which is a partner with ITV on its Britain Get Talking campaign, also criticised Morgan, saying it was "disappointed" by the presenter's comments.

On Monday's programme, Morgan picked up on the duchess's claim that her request to senior Buckingham Palace officials for help was rejected, after she told Oprah she had had suicidal thoughts. I'm sorry, I don't believe a word she said, Meghan Markle. I wouldn't believe it if she read me a weather report. He also referred to the duchess as the "Pinocchio Princess" in a tweet later that morning. Following an outcry, he said on Tuesday's episode that "I still have serious concerns about the veracity of a lot of what" Meghan said, but that it was "not for me to question if she felt suicidal".

He added: "My real concern was a disbelief frankly That is the second highest number of complaints in Ofcom's year history, behind the 44, submitted over several days about the racism row involving Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty on Celebrity Big Brother in Meanwhile, on Monday evening Mind tweeted : "We were disappointed and concerned to see Piers Morgan's comments on not believing Meghan's experiences about suicidal thoughts today.

We are in conversations with ITV about this at the moment. There is a culture war going on, and Piers Morgan's job on Good Morning Britain has fallen victim to it. That's different from saying Morgan himself is a victim of it; in some ways he has been a beneficiary. But when the public position of a star presenter and a broadcaster's CEO are in sharp contrast, about such a sensitive subject, at a time of such heightened tensions, something has to give.

This morning Carolyn McCall made it very clear that she believed Meghan Markle's central claim about her mental health. She went further: ITV takes mental health very seriously. It follows that the company must have expected Morgan to recant publicly, or apologise. He is unlikely to have been willing to do that. Therefore this was the moment to leave GMB. That was a clear, real, frightening and constant thought.

She told Winfrey she had asked to go somewhere to get help with these suicidal thoughts, but was told it would not look good by one of the most senior people in the institution of the monarchy. The remarks provoked a backlash, and it is understood that ITV executives wanted Morgan to apologise for them on-air.

These are clearly extremely serious things that should be taken extremely seriously, and if someone is feeling that way they should get the treatment and help they need every time. On the same show, Morgan stormed off set after a discussion about Meghan with his colleague Alex Beresford.