GOING, GOING, YAWN Piers heading for USA in £10m bidding war
Meghan & Harry win youth vote
YOUNGER people are turning away from the Royal Family after Harry and Meghan’s bombshell Oprah interview.
A Survation poll for the Sunday Mirror reveals 60% aged 18-34 believe the royal household is racist, compared to fewer than 20% of over-65s.
Those describing themselves as ‘Team Sussex’ make up 36% of the younger age group, compared to fewer than 10% of those aged 55 and older.
Nearly 52% of under-34s want to end the monarchy. If it remains, half say William should replace Charles as heir.
Only 15% that age think the interview was more damaging to Harry and Meghan than the Royal Family.
Overall, one in five people back the couple while 35 per cent are in the Royalist camp. But four in 10 think the TV show hurt both sides equally.
Nearly half – 45% – think it unlikely Buckingham Palace refused to let Meghan seek help for her mental issues.
Just a quarter think her son Archie and unborn daughter should have the titles prince and princess – rising to 45% of under-34s.
Two thirds of all adults say taxpayers should not foot the bill for the Sussexes’ security.
The same proportion want to keep the monarchy, rising to 86% of Tory voters. Labour supporters are 50-50.
But 45% want Charles to stand aside for William, while 35% want things as they are.
Men are evenly divided but women favour Prince William over his father by 49% to 31%.
Tory voters are more likely to be behind Charles, while Labour ones are with William.
French magazine Charlie Hebdo has sparked outrage by using a cartoon of the Queen kneeling on Meghan’s neck on its latest front cover.
Over the image it says: “Why Meghan left Buckingham” and a speech bubble from her says: “I couldn’t breathe any more”, in a reference to George Floyd’s death in the US.
Anti-racism campaigners called it “wrong on every level”. Islamic terrorists killed 12 at the mag’s office in 2015.
IT’S Good Yawning Britain for motormouth Piers Morgan as TV moguls clamour to sign him up.
The unshaven presenter looked tired but relaxed, despite being at the centre of a £10million bidding war.
The 55-year-old is being wooed for his services after he stormed out of his Good Morning Britain job last week over a row about
Meghan Markle.
But work seemed to be the last thing on his mind on Friday as he strolled near his London home in grey jogging bottoms and trainers.
Sources say Piers is considering a return to the States, where he fronted his own show on CNN for three years.
Piers, on an estimat- ed £3million a year at
ITV, may front Rupert
Murdoch’s upcoming “opinionated” News UK TV venture or become a star feature of his US network, Fox News. Meanwhile GB News chairman Andrew Neil thinks Piers could be a ratings winner for his channel, which launches this year.
Music mogul Simon Cowell is expected to relaunch his TV empire this year after X Factor was canned and knows Piers, who has been a Britain’s Got Talent judge, could be big draw for viewers. The mega offers come after
Piers refused to apologise on air for slamming Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview. He insisted he didn’t believe anything she had said, including that she felt suicidal while she was still a working member of the Royal Family.
A TV source explained: “He has had millions of pounds worth of offers. He turned GMB into a ratings hit, it seems everything he touches turns to gold.
“People love his honesty, even the people that don’t like him, they can’t help but be interested in what he says. “Some of the offers have hit the £10million mark, and it seems he may be able to land exactly what he wants.”
Last week the Duchess of Sussex, along with 41,000 other people, complained to Ofcom about his comments on GMB. Piers quit after an on-air bustup with weatherman Alex Beresford. He celebrated his departure with champagne, and the next morning emerged from his £6million West London townhouse declaring: “I believe in freedom of speech, I believe in the right to be allowed to have an opinion.
“If I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly-held opinion about Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview, so be it.”
Since he quit, ITV’S market value has fallen by £200million while GMB has lost half a million viewers.
A petition calling for his return to the ITV morning show had 227,000 signatures by last night. His sensational resignation on Tuesday was seen by more than two million viewers, with GMB beating its rival BBC Breakfast for the first time since its April 2014 launch.