Piers Morgan LEAVES GMB mid-show after Susanna Reid slams him over Legs-it row
PIERS MORGAN vanished from Good Morning Britain mid-way through the show today, leaving co-host Susanna Reid to hold the fort alone.
Susanna Reid clashes with Piers Morgan over 'Legs-it'
Susanna, 46, cut a lonely figure as she was heard telling viewers after an ad break: “Piers has popped out to go to the green room to look after a guest.”
It was revealed that the 51-year-old Good Morning Britain star was keeping Dame Joan Collins company behind-the-scenes as she had her make-up done before her Good Morning Britain interview.
His departure from the famous red sofa followed on from a severe scolding from Susanna, after he suggested that she was not pleased with a newspaper for comparing Prime Minister Theresa May and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s legs on its front page.
She was heard hitting out at Piers: “It is utter nonsense to say male politicians are objectified all the time.”
But, Piers did not take it lying down as she said: “What about the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who every time he appears in public, women who’ve been leading the charge of outrage over this start, drooling like little puppy dogs about this handsome, devastatingly good-looking guy who they all want to romp with?”
Susanna hit back: “One exception to the rule. Unfortunately, women are constantly judged on their appearance and I think the women - and the men - who objected to the way that was portrayed were frustrated that at a moment of political crisis and opportunity, when the UK is negotiating the future of Scotland and the two most powerful politicians in that conversation are then judged and put up against each other in a competition over whose legs are better, trivialises the whole argument.
Piers has popped out to go to the green room to look after a guest
The veteran broadcaster was not pleased by Piers but it seems that the allure of Dame Joan, 83, had drawn him away from his TV wife rather than her anger at Legs-it.
Piers brought Dame Joan into the debate, to which she replied: “Was I offended? Well no I actually giggled and then I showed it to [husband] Percy and I said, ‘What do you think of these legs,’ and he said, ‘Yours are better’.”
She asserted that she was a feminist and believed in equality between the genders rather than one sex being better than the other.
When asked whether she would ever retire, Dame Joan said: “Well I don’t see the point, I would get really bored, you know. If they do retire me from films or theatre, or my one woman show, then I will write or design.
“I will do something. I’m not a person who can sit around doing nothing and I’m sure that neither of you are. Also they say if you retire you don’t live that much longer.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am.