Piers Morgan spent two decades trailblazing his way through the tabloid media, rising from a showbiz journalist to editor of the News of the World before he'd reached 40.
From exposing tales of sexual deviancy in the ruling classes to securing explosive celebrity exclusives, the freshly departed Good Morning Britain host was notorious for his bulldozer approach.
And by his side through it all was Piers' first wife, nurse Marion Shalloe, 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 at 29.
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