Piers Morgan would love BGT return if he can sack 'duplicitous' David Walliams
EXCLUSIVE: Piers Morgan details the two conditions that would need to be met before he would agree to rejoin Britain's Got Talent - and it's bad new for Walliams
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There’s no holding Piers Morgan back – as millions of viewers and countless Twitter adversaries will know.
So amid talk of a sensational return to Britain’s Got Talent, the outspoken star reveals it hinges on two conditions.
One – current judge David Walliams gets the boot. And two – Piers wants to be the one to give him the sack.
The latter may have been tongue-in-cheek but the former certainly wasn’t.
Piers and David have been at war for a year.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror, Piers tells how he was approached by ITV chiefs after BGT supremo Simon Cowell broke his back in an accident.
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David reportedly threatened to quit if Piers – a judge when BGT launched in 2007 – returned to the show. Piers said: “I do have conversations with BGT every now and again, particularly after Simon had his injury.
“But I couldn’t work with Walliams. I think he is a duplicitous, treacherous, piece of work.
"He is one of those people who says one thing to your face and then sticks it to you behind your back.
"If he was sitting there I wouldn’t be interested. But if he wasn’t sitting there, who knows?”
With a big dose of Piers Morgan cheekiness, he tells how he would push the red buzzer on his former judge.
He says: “I will come back to BGT if the money is right and if they guarantee Walliams gets fired. I might even make it a contractual clause that I get to be the one who tells him he is fired.
"If I was him I would stick to writing his children’s books.”
The feud began after Piers uncovered a series of “nasty” tweets David had liked in October 2019.
The row escalated with Piers saying: “Amusing that @davidwalliams regularly ‘likes’ nastiest tweets about me, yet is such a snivelling toady to my face. Not my fault @BGT ratings were higher when I was in your chair Dave!”
He then traded blows with Bake Off host Matt Lucas, who leaped to the defence of his Little Britain pal.
Piers pointed out BGT ratings were double the current 10 million when he was a judge.
Of David, he wrote: “Hi Matt, I don’t think it’s ‘polite’ to be friendly in person but poisonous behind their back. It’s cowardly.”
David then liked a tweet saying Piers’ “transformation to Trump-loving, Farage and Johnson a**e kissing populism has been sad to behold”.
David’s BGT deal ends in 2021 – as does Piers’ at Good Morning Britain, which he hosts with Susanna Reid.
The timings suggest a revamp of the show is possible.
Piers, 55, is known for his straight talking, an acid tongue, and a litany of showbiz feuds.
Many are laid bare in his new book Wake Up, in which he dissects the “woke” brigade and calls for a return to less hysterical ways of communicating – ironic, given the way he often shouts over GMB guests.
But this year he has turned from panto villain to hero by calling out the Government and famously telling his old pal President Trump to “shut the **** up” over Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter protests.
And today Piers revealed he spoke to Donald this week – proving Trump has forgiven him.
Piers tweeted: “Just had a 25-minute chat on the phone with President @realDonaldTrump from the White House. His last words? ‘Piers, I’m going to win.’
“We talked about all sorts of stuff – the election, coronavirus, this week’s debate, Joe Biden, Boris Johnson... and scam phone calls he’d received from people pretending to be me.”
Trump then retweeted an image of Piers’ new book, captioning it: “An Apprentice Champion. Check out his very interesting new book!”
In the book, Piers slams what he calls hypocritical, self-centred stars.
And in our chat, TV host Kirstie Allsopp – who visited her second home during lockdown – gets a rocket, as does singer Madonna: “It’s always about her.”
And Piers puts the boot into David and Victoria Beckham for furloughing staff during the pandemic.
But he has stepped back from continually blasting Meghan and Harry after one of his sons asked why he was talking about them so much if he didn’t like them. “A fair point,” Piers says.
But when asked if he will watch any of their Netflix work, he quips: “I am looking forward to all their woke documentaries with the kind of enthusiasm I look forward to having root canal surgery at the dentist.”
Politicians don’t get off lightly. Piers swipes: “This is one of the most incompetent and useless bunch of blithering imbeciles to ever lead a country.”
On the home front, he says he learns a lot from his kids – Spencer, 27, Stanley, 23, Albert, 19, and Elise, eight – “because they give you a different perspective”.
And he says author wife Celia Walden turned supercook during lockdown with “wondrous treats”.
As for his skills, he says: “I cooked one meal – Spaghetti Morgan-ese. That comes out once a year.”
- Wake Up, by Piers Morgan, is out now. Published by Harper Collins.
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