IF you think Piers Morgan is bad on the television, you should try sitting a few feet away from him.
I think the wobbly-chinned TV host may be finally losing whatever grip on reality he once had after he went for me on Good Morning Britain today and called me the worst guest ever – and I think it’s because I’m in better shape than him and he doesn’t like other men.
I’ve been a guest on GMB a few times before, so I know the drill – but today Piers – who reminds me of a wobbly bag of wind – was acting like a drunk uncle at a funeral.
The topic for today was people complaining about a mildly saucy advert on the tube showing a topless man in his fifties – they said it objectified him.
Being 45, I think the fuss is ridiculous and that a grown man should be free to objectified as much as he chooses.
The other guest was Harriet Minter, a journalist of solid Guardianista leanings who is regularly booked to say sincere things about sexism and objectification.
I was happy to tell her where I thought I disagreed with her, but it turned out I didn’t get a chance.
Morgan went in so hard on her, telling her to ‘put a cork in it’ – and I was so disgusted by the way he spoke to her that I ended up sticking up for her rather than having my own argument.
You can tell everyone hates him
Anyone who has watched the show knows that the other presenters do not like Morgan – you do not need to be a body language expert to tell people are physically recoiling.
But when the cameras are off it is even more obvious. It’s that awkward atmosphere where people are just hoping that he keeps his behaviour within the bounds of normal awfulness.
Morgan talks, but nobody knows if he is talking to them. His gaze is buried in his smartphone, presumably looking for people that like him more than the one who are paid to sit near him.
But today he was worse than usual.
From his iPhone love-in, he was muttering away crossly to himself as we were counting down to the end of the commercial break.
And when we were introduced it became clear what he was doing, he was rehearsing his lines for a full-on, furious rant at my fellow guest, whose views he clearly thought were responsible for all that is wrong with the world. We didn’t seem to be talking about the topless man any more.
I tried a little bit to get into the debate, but then realised that I did not want to be a part of it. Just because I disagree with a woman, does not mean I want to see her being spoken to so aggressively by the host of a show.
And yes, in my opinion it is worse because he is man talking like that to a woman.
In a mildly shouty exchange, I told Morgan that however much I was supposed to disagree with the person sitting next to me, I was changing my mind and going on her side.
One minute he was in a full-on, spit-spraying rage at her – but when I turned on him too he looked confused.
He seems to be having some kind of breakdown
This is when he cut me off and called me a “bad guest”.
Which is brilliant, it is exactly the same as calling someone a naughty boy. And I can’t remember the last time someone did that. Well, certainly not an angry toddler of a grown man.
In the next exchange I said, perhaps unkindly, that Morgan seemed to be having some sort of breakdown.
The look in his eye was of a someone who is really struggling to control himself. They have been talking on air about him being ill, so maybe this was partly it.
But there is being ill, and there is being unhinged.
There have been several reports recently of erratic behaviour, so maybe there is more to it. Does someone need to take him by the shoulder and lead him to a quiet place where his shouts can’t be heard quite so much?
Afterwards there were lots of supportive comments online, most saying that they’d had enough of Morgan talking over his guests, with the summary seeming to be “well it’s about time somebody said it”.
Susanna, for the record, seems like a genuinely nice person, and for putting up with him she must have some kind of saint vibe going on.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have talked on air about him having a breakdown, because if he is in the midst of some sort of crisis, that is insensitive.
Still, levels of sympathy would likely be limited for a man who has made such a lengthy career out of being offensive.
Now I want to point out that of all the many Piers Morgan haters, I am not one.
Well, not one of the worst ones. But today I saw something new.
He was upset, really, upset. And I think he found my calmness upsetting.
‘Piers is all wobbly chins’
I’ve noticed another thing about him before – he’s one of those men that gets a little bit uncomfortable when other men approach.
The chippiness notches up noticeably. I was looking at him, all wobbly chins fighting to escape from his tailoring, and seeing in him all the things we should aim not to be: angry, unkind and unhealthy.
The healthy one is particularly important for me, as it is why I was on the show in the first place.
Ten years ago I broke my legs so badly I thought I might not walk again. But I fought back, and now I take my health incredibly seriously. I have started a podcast called Healthy Beast. Not that I think I am a beast, but that we need to give ourselves the right amount of food, love, sleep and exercise – you do it for your dog, you should do it for yourself.
When you don’t do those things, when you get your gratification from internet likes rather than human interaction, your appetite satisfied with diet soda instead of good food, and your exercise done by waving your arms angrily rather running or jumping, what do you get? You end up like Piers Morgan.
I think he was annoyed by the fact that I was in better shape than him, the older guy in the poster was in better shape than him. And the three dudes standing patiently behind me with their tops off were in better shape than him.
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Morgan wants to be the big beast in the jungle, but he knows that his world doesn’t extend far beyond his smartphone. In the animal kingdom he is just a wobbly bag of wind that would burst the minute it was bitten by reality.
I know what it is like to lose my health, and fight back from a dark place, so I can only wish him well. But one more thing. I read that he called me a twerp on air. He did use the word, but the man waited until I left the building. Enough said.
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