Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan is an English broadcaster and journalist who moved from tabloid editing into television presenting. Born in Guildford in 1965, he began working for The Sun in 1988; in 1994 Rupert Murdoch made him editor of the News of the World, the youngest person to edit a British national paper in more than half a century. He then edited the Daily Mirror from 1995 until his dismissal in 2004, was editorial director of the children's weekly First News between 2006 and 2007, and in 2014 became the first editor-at-large for MailOnline's American operation. On television he judged America's Got Talent from 2006 to 2011 and Britain's Got Talent from 2007 to 2010, won The Celebrity Apprentice in 2008, hosted Piers Morgan's Life Stories on ITV from 2009 to 2020, presented Piers Morgan Live on CNN from 2011 to 2014, and co-presented Good Morning Britain from 2015 to 2021. He also hosted Piers Morgan Uncensored from 2022 to 2024.