What is Piers Morgan's background?!
Question: Piers is currently on the Donald Trump reality t.v. show, Celebrity Apprentice. I know Piers was a judge on the inventor's reality show last year but what is his background? Is he an actor, author, writer or what? He has a very strong personality and is very competitive.
Answers: Piers is currently on the Donald Trump reality t.v. show, Celebrity Apprentice. I know Piers was a judge on the inventor's reality show last year but what is his background? Is he an actor, author, writer or what? He has a very strong personality and is very competitive.
EARLY CAREER:
The youngest of four children[2], Piers Morgan was supposedly named after brewery heir and privateer motor-racing driver Piers Courage. He attended Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey, near Lewes, East Sussex. Morgan studied Journalism at Harlow College. After a brief career at Lloyds of London, he joined the Surrey and South London Newspaper Group, where he worked as a reporter on the South London Press. Morgan was recruited (he says headhunted by editor Kelvin MacKenzie) to join The Sun newspaper, specifically to work on the Bizarre column.
NEWSPAPER CAREER:
Morgan's first major position in national media was as editor of The Sun's show business column, Bizarre, under the editorship of Kelvin MacKenzie. In 1994, aged 28, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, becoming the youngest national newspaper editor for more than half a century. He quickly gained notoriety for his invasive style and lack of concern for celebrities' right to privacy, claiming that they could not manipulate the media to further their own ends without accepting the consequences of a two way deal.
Morgan left this post shortly after publishing photographs of Catherine Victoria Lockwood, then wife of Charles, Earl Spencer leaving a detoxification clinic. This action ran against the editors' code of conduct, a misdemeanour for which the Press Complaints Commission took Morgan to task. Murdoch was reported as having said publicly that "the boy went too far." Morgan's autobiography The Insider states that he left the News of the World of his own choice and somewhat against owner Rupert Murdoch's wishes when he was offered the job of Editor at the Daily Mirror.
As editor of the Daily Mirror, Morgan was widely criticised in 1996 for the headline "Achtung Surrender" a day before England met Germany in a semi-final of the Euro '96 football championships. The story was written by Justin Dunn.
In 2000, he was the subject of an investigation after Suzy Jagger wrote a story in The Daily Telegraph revealing that he had bought ￡20,000 worth of shares in computer company Viglen soon before the Mirror's 'City Slickers' column tipped Viglen as a good buy.[3] He was found to have breached the Code of Conduct on financial journalism by the Press Complaints Commission, but Morgan kept his job. The view was expressed in media columns that Morgan had support in the boardroom, where his qualities as a successful editor were seen to outweigh any suggestions that he might be lacking in personal integrity. The City Slickers columnists Anil Bhoyrul and James Hipwell, were both found to have committed more breaches of the Code, and were sacked before the inquiry. In 2004, further enquiry by the Department of Trade and Industry resulted in the DTI saying that Morgan would not face charges.[4] On 7 December 2005 Bhoyrul and Hipwell were convicted of conspiracy to breach the Financial Services Act. During the trial it emerged that Morgan had in fact bought ￡67,000 worth of Viglen shares, emptying his bank account and investing under his wife's name too.[3]
In 2002, the Daily Mirror attempted to move midmarket, claiming to eschew the more trivial stories of show-business and gossip. Morgan rehired John Pilger, who had been sacked during Robert Maxwell's ownership of the Mirror titles. Despite such changes, Morgan was unable to halt the paper's decline in circulation, a decline shared by its direct rivals The Sun and the Daily Star.
Morgan was fired from the Daily Mirror on 14 May 2004 after authorising the newspaper's publication of what were faked photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by British Army personnel. The Daily Mirror countered that it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and apologised for their publication.
Later, Morgan also had a monthly interview column in GQ magazine.
In May 2005, in partnership with Matthew Freud, he gained ownership of Press Gazette, a media trade publication together with its 'cash cow' the British Press Awards, in a deal worth ￡1 million.[5][6] This ownership was cited as one of the reasons many major newspapers boycotted the 2006 awards.[7] Press Gazette entered administrative receivership toward the end of 2006, before being sold to a trade buyer.
On 4 May 2006, Morgan launched First News, a weekly paper aimed at seven- to fourteen-year-olds. Morgan is editorial director at First News, responsible for bringing in celebrity involvement. He referred to the role as "editorial overlord and frontman."[8]
In 2007, Morgan was filmed falling off of a Segway, breaking three ribs[citation needed]. Simon Cowell and others made much of Morgan's previous comment in 2003, in the Daily Mail, after U.S. President George W. Bush fell off a Segway, that "You'd have to be an idiot to fall off, wouldn't you, Mr. President?"[9][10][11]
TELEVISION CAREER:
Morgan's career has diversified in recent years in to television presentation and proprietorship. In 2003, he presented a three part television documentary series for the BBC titled The Importance of Being Famous, about fame and the manner in which celebrities are covered by modern media.
He has co-hosted his own current affairs interview show on Channel 4, with Amanda Platell called Morgan & Platell. The show was dropped after three series allegedly because of poor ratings, though the chairman of Channel 4, Luke Johnson, was reported not to like the programme.
Morgan was reported in December 2005[12] to be developing a new series You're Fired and to be a panelist in a forthcoming talent show for ITV1 based on the US series The Gong Show. It was reported in the Evening Standard on 21 February 2006 that Morgan was 'in talks' with ITV to take over Paul O'Grady's chat show, following a successful pilot.
Throughout 2006 Morgan appeared as a judge on the American television show America's Got Talent along with Brandy and David Hasselhoff on NBC. Morgan recently appeared as a celebrity contestant on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2007, to raise money for Comic Relief. During filming, he managed to reduce fellow contestant Trinny Woodall to tears when he stole her chef and was involved in a brawl with her.[13] Upon his team losing, Morgan was the only celebrity to be fired by Alan Sugar.[14]
In 2007 he appeared as a judge for the second season of America's Got Talent and also appeared as a judge on the British version of the show, Britain's Got Talent on ITV1, along with Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell. He also presented You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous on BBC One.
In January 2008, Morgan fronted a new 3-part documentary about Sandbanks for ITV1[15] entitled Piers Morgan on Sandbanks.
He has a regular column in the 'Live' supplement of the Mail On Sunday.
Morgan is currently a participant in the U.S. celebrity version of The Apprentice, which began airing in January 2008, where he has had rowdy disagreements with fellow contestant Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth. This was resolved in Morgan's favour on 6 March after her team was defeated by Morgan's. Much of Morgan's appeal to producers of "celebrity" programmes appears to be his propensity for the fallings-out with fellow participants that are popular with viewers, which were also a feature of his newspaper editorships.[citation needed]
Piers has a new DVD coming out entitled The Good, The Gaffes & The Ugly.
Has been editor of British daily newspaper, The Mirror (formerly The Daily Mirror) since 1995.
Was sacked as editor of the Mirror on 14 May 2004 over the Mirror publishing faked photographs of alleged Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers.
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