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Gogglebox To Cover Meghan Markle Interview And Piers Morgan Storming Off GMB

Gogglebox To Cover Meghan Markle Interview And Piers Morgan Storming Off GMB

It's been an eventful week of telly - which should make for more good telly

Jake Massey

Jake Massey

As another week draws to a close, there's plenty to look back on in the world of TV.

Gogglebox will air tonight at 9pm on Channel 4, as usual, and the sofa-based faces we've grown to know will be sharing their verdicts on the big talking points of the week - namely, the Harry and Meghan interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Oh, and that Piers Morgan incident on Good Morning Britain.


This was confirmed by Guardian TV critic Scott Bryan, who posted the news to Twitter on Thursday evening (11 March).

If you've somehow managed to completely disengage from the news/TV/social media this past week, this might provide a good time to catch up.

The reverberations from Harry and Meghan's interview can still be felt now, after it aired in the US on Sunday and the UK on Monday.

Speaking to US TV veteran Oprah Winfrey, Meghan claimed the Royal Family had expressed concerns about the skin colour of her baby Archie prior to his birth, and said she had experienced suicidal thoughts.

But Piers was less than impressed with the interview, which he proceeded to slam on Good Morning Britain.

He said: "I'm angry to the point of boiling over today, I'm sickened by what I've just had to watch.

"This is a two-hour trashathon of our Royal Family, of the monarchy, of everything the Queen has worked so hard for, and it's all being done as Prince Philip lies in hospital. They trash everybody."

What will the Goggleboxers have made of it all?
Channel 4

He continued: "They basically make out the entire Royal Family are a bunch of white supremacists, by dropping this race bombshell... They didn't name which one it was, they just throw it out there, so it could be any member of the Royal Family.

"And Harry says, 'I'll never say who it was.' Well, you better say it fast."

However, it was Piers' dismissal of Meghan's suicidal thoughts which saw him come under fire: from viewers, mental health charities and his then-colleague Alex Beresford, who called out his behaviour on Tuesday, prompting Piers to storm off.

Piers didn't like being on the receiving end of a rollicking.
ITV

Alex said: "This is absolutely diabolical behaviour.

"Piers spouts off on a regular basis and we all have to sit and listen. Six thirty to seven o'clock yesterday was incredibly hard to watch - incredibly hard to watch."

It was announced later that day that Piers and Good Morning Britain would be parting ways.

What will the Gogglebox regulars make of all this? I suppose we'll just have to watch and find out.

LADbible has contacted Channel 4 for comment.

Featured Image Credit: ITV

Topics: TV and Film, gogglebox, UK Entertainment