Piers Morgan

Guess who’s coming to breakfast

Piers Morgan is on the sofa of the sunny set for ITV’s Good Morning Britain wearing a nailhead-weave suit and Chanel foundation. Beside him is smiling co-host Susanna Reid. Their teeth dazzle under 1000w bulbs. It’s 8.15am and their next guest is a fast-blinking 15-year-old who’s invented a gadget for cleaning football boots, accompanied by his proud mother. “I have to say,” Morgan says, turning to the boy who will soon make his first million, “if you’d been in my class, I’d have found you quite annoying.”

In the darkened area behind crew hunched over cameras, behind leads trailing like rats tails, I am wincing. In the next segment he’s talking about Reid’s sweaty palms. And in this way Morgan verbally mows his way through…Read the full article on The Times