Piers Morgan: 'JK Rowling is incredibly irritating!'
PIERS MORGAN has reignited his feud with JK Rowling by dismissing the Harry Potter author as an irritant.
Piers Morgan reignites FEUD with J.K. Rowling on GMB
The Good Morning Britain host’s comments come on the back of her film Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them winning the Oscar for costume design.
During a chat about the gong – JK’s first academy award triumph – on the ITV show, Piers, 51, said: “I wouldn’t know one end of a muggle from a Voldemort.
JK Rowling is incredibly irritating. I’ve never got it.”
The pair have been trading insults over Twitter for weeks, sparked by their differing political views.
Earlier this month JK, 51, expressed delight after Piers was sworn at on a US chat show over his support for President Donald Trump, tweeting to her 9.5million followers: “Yes, watching Piers Morgan being told off on live TV is exactly as satisfying as I’d always imagined.
The fact-free, amoral, bigotryapologism of celebrity toady Piers Morgan is why it’s so delicious to see him told off.”
Prompting Piers to reply: “This is why I’ve never read a single word of Harry Potter.”
To add to the row, two weeks ago Piers’s son Spencer, 23, showed that unlike him he’s very much a JK fan.
Spencer tweeted a picture of his own Harry Potter tattoo with the caption, “Well, this is awkward”. Indeed.
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WE CAN’T possibly imagine why but GWYNETH PALTROW, 44, thought everyone hated her because of her lifestyle website Goop.
“There have been many times over the years that I’ve been like ‘Why am I doing this?
This is totally excruciating and unrewarding, and everyone hates it and hates me’,” says the mum-of-two, who no longer oversees the day-to-day management of the site and who says that originally it was supposed to be a place only for her friends to garner the advice she provides.
“I don’t know why I started it. I’ve always been that person for my friends, where they ask me, ‘I have a guy coming over for dinner.
How do I roast a chicken?’
Originally it was going to be a tiny database for my friends so they would stop calling me.
Then, some part of me thought maybe there are other people in the world who want answers to the same questions.”
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THOUGH he starred in David Hare’s The Red Barn, actor Mark Strong, inset, is clearly no fan of the playwright’s zany dress sense – which he finds all the more unfathomable considering Hare’s been married to fashion designer Nicole Farhi, pictured with him, for 25 years.
“He is a man who can’t wear a suit. It’s ironic he’s married to a designer because he’s always such a mess!” the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy star, 53 – who has recently finished his run in The Red Barn alongside The Night Manager actress Elizabeth Debicki – tells Day & Night.
Mark, 53, who came to prominence alongside current Bond Daniel Craig as part of a star-studded cast in mid-1990s drama Our Friends In The North, adds prudently: “He’s got the wrong frame but he’s a great guy.”
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SINGER Sheena Easton, back in Blighty after decades in the US to make her West End debut in 42nd Street, is “so grateful” she broke through when she did.
She declared: “I’d hate to be starting out now.
If I was, I maybe would not have wanted to be a singer.”
Scot Sheena, 57, who shot to fame after appearing in 1980 as a young unknown on Esther Rantzen’s talent-building documentary The Big Time, tells Yours magazine: “There’s not the nurturing of new talent that there was then, the investment, both financial and emotional. You’re supposed to emerge into the public eye with an instant hit and keep producing hit after hit.”
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AFTER relinquishing his decadelong role on Saturday Kitchen last year chef James Martin, left, has spoken about his favourite guest on the show – none other than the late baroness of the bonkbuster Jackie Collins, right.
“She was the most beautiful person, inside and out, I’ve ever met in my life,” the 44-year-old tells Woman’s Own.
“My opening line to her was: ‘You’ve sold 890 million books – where did it all go wrong?’
James Martin reveals a fan 'dropped DEAD in front of him'
“And she said: ‘Well it went wrong right here because it’s actually 960 million.
But what’s 70 million between friends?’”
He added: “She was also the only person to write to thank me on Saturday Kitchen in 10 years on the show.”