Wife’s fears as GMB host Piers gets a death threat
PIERS MORGAN’S wife has spoken of her fears for their family after the Good Morning Britain presenter received a death threat on Instagram.
Celia Walden said she was left feeling ‘trembly’ when police responded by fitting a panic button in their bedroom.
But the couple have both vowed to fight back by tracking down the troll, whose account has since been deleted.
Morgan called police after the user told him: ‘@PiersMorgan your a marked man, calling the police, big tech or beefing up your security isn’t going to stop us getting to you, this isn’t a threat Piers it’s a promise, your getting killed.’
Writing in her Telegraph column, Ms Walden said: ‘It was only when I was told my phone number would be listed with a “rapid response” unit specialising in death threats, and a security engineer came to install a panic button by our bed that would have the police there within four minutes, that a trembly feeling started up in my stomach.
‘I thought about the nine-year-old I’d told to stay in her bedroom until “Daddy’s work colleagues have gone” and composed a convincing lie for when my daughter asked what the contraption in our bedroom was for.’
Ms Walden said she felt incensed at ‘having to look left, right and behind me’ because ‘ somewhere in a basement, behind their anonymous egg-shaped
profiles, these human vermin can think of nothing better to do than spread poison’. She added: ‘I say a basement, but perhaps these people live above ground, alongside the rest of us.’
Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Morgan added: ‘I am going to find out who did that, and they will be held to account. That’s what I will do every time one of these morons think it’s OK, because it’s not. It’s a criminal threat.’