Biography

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).

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 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.

[on the height of Hollywood actors] Most of the men that sue in Hollywood are all about 5' 2". They wake up every day, know they're tiny and feel very angry about it, so they go out and sue people.

[speaking in 2005 about the British Education Secretary] Why do we want someone like Ruth Kelly controlling our children? She's the scariest woman I've ever seen in politics.

Big Brother (2000) is about celebrating the talentless... Britain's Got Talent (2007) is 100 per cent about celebrating talent.

Journalism is no longer just about the print medium and in 25 years' time newspapers will have died out. You're left with a new form of journalism which will be conducted through the prism of iPads and everything else. It will always be about content - journalists will always have work, just in a different format.

I miss the adrenalin of working in a newsroom when there's a massive breaking news story such as the Arizona shootings. Now I have this show I will still be involved with news stories like that. I've come full circle.