- Was sacked as editor of the Mirror on 14 May 2004 over the Mirror publishing faked photographs of alleged Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers.
- He claimed Susan Boyle's first televised performance of I Dreamed a Dream was the greatest performance in the history of Britain's Got Talent (2009).
- He is of Irish, Scottish, English, and 1/32 Portuguese, ancestry.
- Introduced Heather Mills to husband-to-be Paul McCartney at a charity event in 1999.
- There is some confusion as to his real name. As late as June of 2019, he has claimed that his real name is Piers Pughe-Morgan.
- He was the editor of the British tabloid newspaper The Mirror (formerly The Daily Mirror) from 1995 until 2004, when he was sacked over the Mirror publishing faked photographs of alleged Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers.
- In the matter of his real surname, it appears that his father's name was O'Meara, but he died before his son was a year old. The mother then married a Mr. Pughe-Morgan and Piers Morgan took the latter's double-barreled surname, later shortening it for professional purposes.
- He won The Apprentice (2004) (Celebrity Apprentice) in 2008.
- He is the father, with Celia Walden, of daughter Elise, born in November 2011 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
- In January 2011, he succeeded Larry King on Larry King Live (1985) as CNN's new interviewer. His first scheduled guest January 17th was Oprah Winfrey.
- His hero is the British aristocrat, imperialist, and former Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- He landed Oprah Winfrey as his very first celebrity guest on Piers Morgan Live (2011) (Jan. 17, 2011) after his persistent emails to Oprah's best friend Gayle King finally paid off.
- As editor of the "Daily Mirror", he instigated a campaign against Ian Hislop, the editor of "Private Eye" and one of his most vociferous and public critics. Starting in 2002, this campaign took many months and managed to come up with nothing of a defamatory nature against Hislop whatsoever. Hislop, in turn, took great delight in ridiculing all Morgan's efforts both on TV and in print, revealing, for example, that one of Morgan's reporters had interviewed the Anglican vicar in his village and asked him to reveal any dirty secrets Hislop had admitted to "during Confession" - which is, of course, a rite of the Roman Catholic Church, not the Anglican one, and which is, in any case, secret. The worst Morgan could come up with was a photograph of Hislop with a rough beard - although, as the photo also revealed Hislop's right arm to be in a sling, it was easy to understand why he had been unable to shave properly. After more than a year, Morgan was forced to stop his inquiries, and he was sacked as "Mirror" editor soon afterwards.
- Piers' father, Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, was from Galway in the west of Ireland, and died when Piers was just one year old.
- He is a close friend of convicted phone hacker Andy Coulson and controversial American president Donald Trump, although he has stated that he doesn't agree with some of Trump's policies, such as on gun control and climate change.
- He was the editor-at-large, "MailOnline.com [2014].
- He has three children. Their names are Spencer July '93, Stanley June '97 and Albert "Bertie" Dec. '00.
- On 24 August 1981, he attended the Greenbelt Arts And Music Festival, where he saw a then little-known Irish band called U2 perform.
- When a DNA profile was compiled for Morgan on his UK TV show Good Morning Britain (2014), it was revealed that he is 91% Irish/Scottish/Welsh, 6.5% Eastern European, 1.6% West Asian and 0.8% Middle Eastern. (October 17, 2017)
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