How Cristiano Ronaldo saved Piers Morgan’s new TV show

It remains to be seen whether the Ronaldo interview turns out to be a high-water mark for Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV, or one of many viral hits.

William Turvill

Dec 9, 2022 – 5.00am

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Piers Morgan has had to be resilient during his near 40-year career in journalism. In 2004, he was sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror and escorted from the newspaper’s offices after it had published photographs, later shown to be fakes, showing British soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners.

In 2014 Morgan was sacked again when ratings for his CNN show collapsed. Last year, his six-year reign on ITV’s Good Morning Britain ended when a co-presenter challenged his persistent attacks on Meghan Markle: Morgan walked off the set and later resigned when he was ordered to apologise.

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