Now Meghan complains to Ofcom about Morgan
THE media regulator Ofcom has received a complaint on behalf of Meghan Markle about controversial remarks by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain.
The broadcaster cast doubts on comments by the Duchess of Sussex in her interview with Oprah Winfrey in which she spoke of her suicidal thoughts.
Morgan insisted he did not believe a word of what Meghan had said. Earlier this week it emerged the duchess had made a formal complaint to ITV after his criticism of her on Monday’s programme. It is claimed she focused on the way his remarks could have an impact on mental health generally. Morgan quit the programme on Tuesday, when Ofcom revealed it had at that point received more than 41,000 complaints. The mental health charity Mind has also criticised Morgan’s comments.
Now Ofcom has confirmed ‘receipt of a standards complaint made on behalf of the Duchess of Sussex’.
Yesterday Morgan, pictured, blamed his departure from Good Morning Britain on ‘cancel culture’. He said he had ‘lost’ his job because he would not apologise for ‘disbelieving’ Meghan’s claims.
He wrote on Instagram: ‘I thus became the latest “victim” of the cancel culture that is permeating our country… Though of course I consider myself to be neither a victim, nor actually cancelled.’
It comes as Associated Newspapers, owner of the Daily Mail, has written to Viacom CBS calling for a ‘seriously inaccurate and misleading’ montage of British newspapers to be removed from the Oprah interview programme.
The company has criticised the CBS show for ‘deliberate distortion and doctoring’ of newspaper headlines to support its claims about racist UK press coverage.
It was announced yesterday that Harry and Meghan have donated to PressPad, a new charity that aims to help young people of ‘diverse backgrounds’ become journalists.