Contemptible gutter-snipe, Piers Moron, is alluding to being the next replacement for Larry King, when he finally hangs up his mic at CNN.
Has his disgraceful exit from editing the Mirror for publishing fake pictures of soldiers (google it) been airbrushed from his biog, then?
Is the fact that he's a slimy, talentless toad who's interview technique is to repeat "how did it
feel
?" endlessly not setting alarm bells off to producers, that he might in fact, be a pile of steaming garbage - and not in remotely the same league as Mr King?
I can't see Piers going to CNN. I know Piers works in America as well as UK, but would he not find it hard to do a nightly show, covering breaking news stories as well as human/celebrity interviews?
Moron has today been whinging that being a judge on a talent show is, "harder than it looks".
He added: "Everyone assumes it's really easy to be instantly hilarious on the spur of the moment in front of a huge audience, but when you're seeing hundreds of acts, it's hard."
Who wants to be the one to tell him he's not "instantly" or even "eventually" hilarious.
To be fair, that's the first thing he's said that made me laugh.
Piers "Morgan" Moron is apparently set to replace veteran CNN anchor Larry King in a £5.5m, £9m, £10m or possibly £12m deal, depending on which paper you read and believe.
Less well-covered in the UK media was the reaction from CNN itself: "Not surprisingly, there is no shortage of people who would love to succeed Larry King if and when he moves on, but the rumours we are close to signing a deal for a Larry King replacement are untrue. Larry is a beloved member of the team and he will continue to be part of the CNN family into the future." Perhaps it is significant that Moron has never even been used as a guest presenter of King's show, and even Heather Mills managed that.
What CNN is looking for, however, is a host of the 8pm slot recently vacated by Campbell brown. Hence the fancy PR footwork - by linking his name to King, Moron hopes to bag the 8pm slot.
CNN insiders are baffled by the column inches generated by the Moron spin machine because substantive talks have been taking place with another disgraced public figure, former New York state governor Eliot Spitzer. "We aren't commenting on the Piers Morgan speculation but we are talking to many people about the 8pm hour," the network confirmed last week.
Moron's spin machine has also been in action recently talking up his interview with Nelson Mandela for ITV. Shame it never actually happened.
In man an "ITV insider" was boasting to the
News of the World
that Moron had been signed up for £40,000: "It was an enormous coup. Yes Piers is earning a lot of money for what most would see as an honour, but he is the best man for the job."
He wasn't. He wasn't even the first choice for the job - the interview had been set up with Sit Trevor McDonald. Morgan was drafted in as a last minute stand-in, until Mandela's "people" cancelled at the last minute
(surely not? Ed.(
after Morgan and the production team had already been in South Africa for days filming background material
So instead of what had been tastefully pitched as "what could be Mandela's final interview", viewers on 6 June were treated to
Piers Morgan's World Cup South Africa
- an hour-long programme noticeably lacking the man of the match himself.
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