Piers Morgan has spoken out about US chat show The Talk's decision to fire his close friend Sharon Osbourne. Piers 57, has defended Sharon, 69, who abruptly left the CBS show in March 2021.
Sharon had been at The Talk for 10 years.The pair were previously on the America's Got Talent judging panel together, and are about to be reunited on British television.
They both have a daily talk show on the new channel Talk TV, which launches on Monday April 25th. Piers told The Sun's TV Mag: "I’m particularly delighted about that [Sharon's new show on Talk TV] because Sharon got cancelled from her show The Talk in America after 10 years, a show that she loved and was the star of, because she tweeted her support for my right to have an opinion.""She didn’t even agree with the opinion, she just said I was entitled to it, which by the way I was."Piers explained that at the time, Sharon was "accused of being a racist sympathiser, as if somehow me saying I don’t believe Meghan Markle makes me racist, which again is complete nonsense."What happened to me was bad, what happened to Sharon was disgusting," added Piers.He stated that "she was basically made unemployable."Sharon's exit from The Talk last year came shortly after Piers' departure from Good Morning Britain, where he walked off following an argument with Alex Beresford.
He'd stated that he did not believe comments made by Meghan Markle to Oprah Winfrey in their interview that first aired on CBS on March 7th.“@piersmorgan I am with you,” tweeted Sharon. “I stand by you.
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