Piers Morgan has a new show on CNN in which he’s taking over for finally retired Larry King. The show premieres on January 17th. Morgan told ET’s Billy Bush that Madonna is banned from appearing on his show and that she’d have to kiss his ass to ever come on. He was initially vague when Bush asked him what Madonna had done to offend him, simply saying “she knows what she’s done,” but then elaborated to include an itemized list of the long history of wrongs Madonna has committed against him, the worst of which was lying about her pregnancy when he was the editor of the Daily Mirror and offering his competitor the exclusive story.
The way she could come back is to literally get on bended knee… somewhere like Times Square on national television and beg me for forgiveness.
There was a breadroll throwing incident in the mid 90s. There was an incident at a hotel in the South of France at the Cannes film festival involving a photographer and a bodyguard. An incident involving a pub owned by her recently departed husband Guy Ritchie where my brother was the manager. You know the worse thing Madonna did to me? Madonna’s publicist once said to me ‘Listen to me, Madonna is not pregnant’ when I was running a newspaper. I said ‘are you sure?…’
Next day, they announced it on the rival newspaper’s website.
[From video on Access Hollywood]
I don’t know much about Morgan but the interview really endeared me to him. The guy is awesome and I love that he holds grudges and will tell you about them! He also calls Madonna “boring and annoying” according to Bush.
Morgan’s first guest will be the allmighty Oprah. He doesn’t need Madonna or anyone else who pissed him off, and I would suspect that there are quite a few other people.
I guess this is Piers Morgan’s wife, Celia. Damn!
He’s got my respect! Madonna is annoying.
Uhhh Eff him. So what Madonna didn’t tell you she was pregnant and told someone else. Your nobody to her. So what her EX was a douche in your brothers bar. What a big d-bag. How dare he trash talk Madonna! What nerve. Madonna is a f*cking icon dude. This guy made my sh*t list and I am betting his new show gets canceled pretty soon. This dude can’t replace Larry King. Jerk.
I’ve never seen his wife before. DAMN, she has got a gorgeous figure!
Madge is a bitch that’s old news. I think he’s just using her as an easy target to get himself attention I hate when people do that. I will give him a chance before I decide whether or not I like him.
he wants her on the show…this is a build up to the interview to get ratings.
I don’t think Morgan should be the host and I wouldn’t be surprised many other people feel the same way. He should be happy any major star would want to be on it. If he has a personal issue with Madonna then just don’t have her on the show no need to announce she won’t be on it and call her boring.
I agree with him. Madonna is boring and annoying. She gives nothing to interviews. Her infamous interview with Letterman, the f-word interview, is only known because of her dropping F bombs. She said nothing. She is boring. She is as boring as she was when she first began her career.
I recall reading one of her first interviews and she was as superficial then, as she is now.
Agree with jr: publicity stunt and the people who said he’s a douche and wrong for the show.
Love it…
AMEN
In the UK, he’s known as a major c@$k. Sorry US…
I totally believe Madonna has probably been an ass to him in the past, but he just comes off as bitter with these comments. A good interviewer should be able to set aside personal grudges. He would be so lucky as to have her on his show.
They’re probably quite chummy in real life… they have a lot in common. Both immensly successful with mediocre talent and very smart self-promotion, both opinionated and obnoxious, both veterans of the old media circus games, both trying to make it big on the other side of the Atlantic, and both filled with a stunning sense of entitlement.
She is deadly dull.
What a painfully transparent predator he is.
First he runs her down, all the while setting the table for the eventual roadkill partay.
@Love Angelina: You are absolutely right this guy is a P.O.S. just a big F-ing LOSER he constantly mentions Madonna to get publicity which makes him look even more stupid and desperate. I guess the only way for him to get attention is by talking about Madonna and the funny thing is Madonna’s said she’s never even heard of him.
I was so upset when I found out he got the Larry King spot. When are we going to get some female nighttime talk show hosts?!
Good for the old ratings.
@Love
Larry King wasn an over blown crap hound, Madonna is a boring and annoying. And I’m sure this guy doesn’t give a rat’s right nut that he is on your shit list.
What? Did she turn him down?
idk about piers yet…guess time will tell if he’s got the chops to handle this. so far he’s coming across as a real whiner.
hooray!
This douche has been using Madonna’s name to get publicity for his show since he got it. If she’s such a nobody, how come this is the second time this story’s been seeded? Pathetic. Go back to playing second fiddle to Hasselhoff on stupid game shows.
I had no opinion of Piers until this story and now I adore him. Ole Golum-arms can go sit on it. Or go to an Amber Alert and try to snatch up another baby as a boyfriend.
Well, he ought to know BORING and ANNOYING better than anyone.
Pot. Kettle. Black
He acts like a whiny little girl. Classy, Piers, taking over a respected interview show and acting like a tabloid interviewer continuing to carry on about Madonna.
He’s hated Madonna for over 15 years. He gave her Girlie tour a scathing review. But the review seemed personal, the way he attacked the show.
Wow. All this says is that Piers Morgan has a little tiny dick. Grow some balls lady.
And of course he has a hot wife. Every rich man has a hot wife, they are easy to find when you can afford one.
Hate this man. He is awful on britain’s got talent and I cringe every time he does some kiss ass interview with an annoying celebrity. madonna probably is a complete bitch and i’m not a fan of her’s either, but i doubt she would bother to waste her time bitching off about him (or may be she has?). who cares if her publicist lied to him about her pregnancy? why should she have to go to him. I’m sorry America, that you now have to put up with him!
The two microphones thing with her face is giving me naughty thoughts… lol
I like Piers. Whoever says he’s wrong for the show should take a note: since Parky retired, he’s become one of the best out there and definitely the best export from the UK at this moment. He’s much smarter than let’s say Jay Leno!
That’s awesome that he tell details. That was very NOT COOL about the pregnancy announcement. You don’t lie to the press like that….unless you’re Madonna and it’s the American press. Not the British press. I hope he can make the former Larry King show much more “alive” than the crypt keeper did. He’s showing great promise right out of the gate.
Don’t know who this guy is, but I’ll say this:
1. He’s absolutely right about the Gristle. She’s wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy past her prime, and face it…even at her prime she was barely mediocre.
2. His wife is stunning! Wow.
I guess I am alone here but I think Piers wife is a little bit, well dude looking. Like she has a slight 5 o’clock shadow thing going on there for starters…
But anyway, Piers is a bit of an ass-hat really, then again, so is Madge. 😆
A younger, beautiful woman marries older, red-faced Piers. Hmmmmmm. It must be his good looks and charm.
Don’t be fooled by Piers. I don’t think he was as innocent as he seemed, trying to gather buzz for his paper in 2004..
From Wiki:
“Morgan was fired from the Mirror on 14 May 2004 after authorising the newspaper’s publication of photographs allegedly showing Iraqi prisoners being abused by British Army soldiers from the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. Within days the photographs were shown to be crude fakes. Under the headline “SORRY.. WE WERE HOAXED”, the Mirror responded that it had fallen victim to a “calculated and malicious hoax” and apologised for the publication of the photographs.”
I have always thought that he would do anything for controversy, whether it be fake photographs or dropping names in casual conversation, even in the negative.
I think most in the UK think he is a real sleazeball.
Ban away…I for one could never see Madonna again and be delighted!
If Piers did host her, he’d blow her phony British accent right out of the water-ha-ha-ha!
Won’t be watching this, he’s an annoying twat.
Oh boo hoo she didnt give him the pregnancy scoop for his newspaper so he is “getting back at her” by not having her on the show?! How old is he?!
Who is this guy and why in the world was he picked to replace Larry King??? We need an American Icon, like Larry, not an English whiner.
I like Piers, he’s a complete ass but he knows it and it’s actually part of his smug charm. This bragging is all part of his persona. And say what you like about him, he knows how to get a good interview. I reckon he’ll really surprise people.
Can’t stand him. Pompous a$$
Won’t watch him.
I was not going to post anything… until I read Camille’s comment. Noting about his wife looks like a dude. Maybe if you clean your computer screen you might not see the shadow. ( And i am not even a fan of Piers)
I meant nothing… on the post above.
@MeMyself
” I think most in the UK think he is a real sleazeball”.
Well. I wish that were true, but as ratings show, viewers here can’t get enough pregnant pauses and contrived BS from Simon Cowell’s man bitch.
That aside, I think those fake photos you’re referring to were deliberately leaked The Mirror newspaper as it was staunchly anti-war…….
@ Squirrel – I think I love you.
I thought Piers was awfully sweet with Susan Boyle.
Oh my what a big head he has!
he should add Lady CaCa to the list.
she’s such a bore!!
Heaven bound: Sorry chicky but my screen is *very* clean 😀 . No weird shadows anywhere, but thanks for your concern 😉 . My comment/opinion still stands and I am happy with that 🙂 .
Have a nice weekend.
Piers is timid and a bit of a wimp. Madonna´s just an old has been hag, I wish they´d both f**k off to be honest. They´re both boring. Glad you got Piers over there, I can lose his show no probs. Keep Madge over there too.
News flash: Just because a lot of people hate you, does not mean you’re a success or very smart. If Peirs M continues to ask dumb and childish questions like he did with Oprah W, then his ratings will plummet. In one seg, Oprah is slouching as if she’s more bored than relaxed.
PM doesn’t seem intelligent or emotionally mature for that matter. It’s like he tries to act sly but over reaches. He nervously laughs a lot too and acts gitty. If an American acted like him Howard Stern would have laughed at him, not that HS is a winner or intelligent himself.
I also think he’s just another foreigner who fails to understand American culture and pop culture. And most annoyingly, he seems to not respect American culture either, so it’s easy for him to come off as smoog’y and over reaching. He doesn’t show much sincere reverence to Americans. Why would I want to help Dbag like that become wealthy in this country…especially when all he does is bore most of us. Sorry PM, you don’t intimidate or impress us with anything remotely dangerous. You’re way of edgy is something that I can find on Lifetime.
My two cents