Alex Beresford today broke his silence to say he did not want Piers Morgan to quit Good Morning Britain after their heated on-air debate about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
The weather presenter clashed with Piers on Tuesday over his comments about Harry and Meghan’s bombshell interview with US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey.
Morgan stormed off set during their conversation before stepping down from the ITV programme permanently later that day.
Addressing Morgan’s departure on Twitter, Beresford said: ‘I didn’t want him to quit, but I did want him to listen’ as he insisted ‘challenging his opinion was not an outrage’.
It comes as more than 60,000 Britons called for Piers to return to the programme in the space of 12 hours.
One petition, called ‘Bring Back Piers Morgan!’, accused ITV of treating him ‘appallingly’ and another, ‘Keep Piers Morgan on GMB for his common sense approach to life’, now has more than 114,000 signatures.
A third, which has been signed by more than 39,000 people, describes getting him sacked as ‘an absolute farce’.
The total number of signatures for the three polls is now more than 172,000 – up from 110,000 yesterday afternoon.
The weather presenter clashed with Piers Morgan on Tuesday over his comments about Harry and Meghan’s bombshell interview with US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey