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Also known as Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan, Piers Stefan O'Meara

British journalist and television host (born 1965)

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Piers Stefan O'Meara, born on March 30, 1965, in Guildford, Surrey, England, is a British journalist, television presenter, and diarist. He began his professional work period in 1985 and is a citizen of the United Kingdom. Morgan is a male who speaks English and identifies with the Catholic Church. His spouse is Celia Walden.

His published works include *Woke Is Dead*, *Private Files of the Stars*, and *God Bless America*. He has authored seventeen works according to Open Library records. Morgan has an official website and maintains a social media presence with 8,372,070 followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, OpenAlex, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
17

Top works

  • Woke Is Dead
  • Bulgarian Shepherd Training Guide Bulgarian Shepherd Training Includes
  • Bulgarian Shepherd Guide Bulgarian Shepherd Guide Includes
  • Private Files of the Stars
  • God Bless America

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Film & TV

Acting · Guildford, Surrey, England, UK

Born Piers Stefan O'Meara, Piers Morgan is a journalist and TV presenter known for Piers Morgan Tonight (2011), Piers Morgan's Life Stories (2009) and Britain's Got Talent (2007). He has been married to Celia Walden since June 24, 2010. They have one child. He was previously married to Marion Shalloe.

Known for

  • Untold: Chess Mates — Self (archive footage)2026
  • Untold UK: Vinnie Jones — Self2026
  • Greggs vs McDonald's: The Fast Feud — Self (archive footage)2025
  • One Day in Southport — Self (archive footage)2025
  • Sven — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Deadly Love: Amy & Blake — Self2024
  • Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live — Self2024
  • The Tucker Carlson Show — Self2024
  • Wagspiracy: Vardy v Rooney — Self (archive footage)2023
  • The Killer Interview — Self - Host2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1965

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
194
Total plays
297

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Piers+Morgan">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

1h-index
Works
4
Cited by
6

Research areas

BusinessArtArt historyHistoryEngineering

Most cited works

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Quotes

  • [Did he enjoy his first year as editor of the News of the World?] Very much. It's been a very interesting year. At my age, I probably wasn't expected to survive, but I'm glad to be still here. Oh, if you don't mind, I'd rather not be seen in the photograph with a drink in my hand, if you don't mind
  • [As editor of the Bizarre feature in The Sun newspaper] I became the Friend of the Stars, a rampant egomaniac, pictured all the time with famous people - Madonna, Stallone, Bowie, Paul McCartney, hundreds of them. It was shameless, as they didn't know me from Adam. The Sun had had a bad time, after losing an action with Elton John, but this was harmless and funny. The publicity people from the record companies were all in on the joke.
  • [On revealing a pop star's adultery] If X is singing about love and marriage, and sleeping with the nanny, then he deserves to be exposed.
  • I've always made it a strict rule in life to ingratiate myself with three categories of people: newspaper owners, potential newspaper owners and billionaires.This is a despicablle, shameless but often successful modus operandi that hasn't to date done me much harm.
  • [On journalism] It is full of lying, cheating, drunken, cocaine-sniffing, unethical people. It's a wonderful profession.
  • There was a spate of stories that came out because of mobile phones. When they first came out, mobile phones ... journalists found out that if the celebrity hadn't changed their pin code ... You can access, access their voicemail. Just by tapping in a number. Are you really telling me that journalists aren't going to do that? If they know they can ring up Charlotte Church's mobile phone, listen to all her messages?

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Key facts

Born
Piers Stefan O'Meara , ( 1965-03-30 ) 30 March 1965 (age 61) , Guildford , Surrey, England
Education
Harlow College
Occupations
Broadcaster journalist writer media personality
Years active
1985–present
Employers
News of the World (1994–1995) Daily Mirror (1995–2004) First News (2006–2007) CNN (2011–2014) MailOnline (2014–2021) ITV (2007–2021) The Sun (1989–1994, 2022–) TalkTV (2022–2024)
Spouses
Marion Shalloe ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1991 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2008 ) ​ Celia Walden , ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 24 June 2010</span>"}]]}'>2010 ) ​
Relatives
George Walden (father-in-law), Rebecca Loos (second cousin)

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Official website

Official Piers Morgan

Although officialpiersmorgan.com provided other Pier Morgan related news, reviews, and interviews, the content below is mainly from the site's 2009 archived Blog pages, where Piers gives his thoughts on the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2009.

officialpiersmorgan.com

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Encyclopedic overview

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is an English broadcaster, journalist and writer. He began his career in 1988 at the tabloid The Sun. In 1994, at the age of 29, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, which made him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in more than half a century. From 1995 Morgan edited the Daily Mirror, but was fired in 2004. He was the editorial director of First News from 2006 to 2007. In 2014 he became the first editor-at-large of the MailOnline website's American operation.

As a television presenter, Morgan hosted the ITV talk show Piers Morgan's Life Stories (2009–2020), the CNN talk show Piers Morgan Live (2011–2014), and co-presented the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain (2015–2021) alongside Susanna Reid. He has been a judge on the television talent shows America's Got Talent (2006–2011) and Britain's Got Talent (2007–2010). In 2008 Morgan won The Celebrity Apprentice, appearing with the future United States president Donald Trump. He was a presenter for TalkTV (now known as Talk), hosting the programme Piers Morgan Uncensored from 2022 to 2024, before leaving the network and moving the programme to YouTube. Since September 2025 a weekly highlights show from YouTube episodes of the show has aired on Channel 5.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piers Morgan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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