Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan has claimed that Meghan Markle had a "crush" on him when they first met seven years ago.The former Life Stories host, 56, recalled the moment the Duchess of Sussex "slid into his direct messages" within minutes of the journalist following her on social media in 2015.Writing in The Sun ahead of his new column, Piers Morgan Uncensored, the former newspaper editor announced his media comeback after leaving GMB last April.Piers left the show following a disagreement with weatherman Alex Beresford over the Duchess over Meghan's tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.But now, Piers has told how the Duchess is in for an "unpleasant surprise" in the wake of his comeback.He wrote: "Pushy little Princess Pinocchio tried her utmost to cancel me, and she will be in for a very unpleasant surprise when I emerge, like Lazarus, from my den."In a tongue and cheek interview with himself, the TV personality claimed Meghan took a fancy to him.Piers asked himself: "Your blossoming friendship with Meghan Markle was abruptly terminated when she met her now husband, Prince Harry."Do you, deep down, think she once had a slight crush on you too?"He responded: "No question."Nobody’s ever slid faster into my DMs after I’ve followed them on social media – she made Usain Bolt look like a tortoise."Six months after Meghan and Harry's wedding in 2018, the star wrote a column for the Daily Mail claiming he was "ghosted" by the Duchess.Piers has previously told how he followed the Suits actress on Twitter in 2015, while following three of her co-stars at the same time.He claimed that Meghan responded to him following her "within minutes", by sending him a direct message.He wrote: "Within minutes, she sent me a.
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