Piers Morgan is known for his bulldozer approach in the media and shocked the newspaper world by becoming the youngest editor at the age of 29 for more than half a century.
The freshly departed Good Morning Britain spent two decades trailblazing his way through the tabloids, rising from a showbiz journalist to editor of the News of the World.
From exposing tales of sexual deviancy to securing explosive celebrity exclusives, he did it all with first wife nurse Marion Shalloe by his side, whom he married in 1991 aged 26.
Their first-born son Spencer, 27, was born in 1993, just one year before Rupert Murdoch made Piers the News of the World's youngest ever editor, The Mirror reports.
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