Let’s get it off your chest, shall we Piers?
How have your ambitions changed since taking the job at TalkTV?
I had a lot of offers after Meghan Markle decided to force me out of my job. But I like the all-round package of this deal that I did with Rupert Murdoch. TalkTV here, Fox in the US, and columns in The Sun and New York Post. Plus Australia.
Presumably you’d jump at another terrestrial job?
I wouldn’t, no. Because I have done quite a lot of terrestrial television, mainly in America. The Independent diary once ran a story saying that Colin Firth was furious at suggestions he might play me in a movie of my book, The Insider. And he rang me up, and he said: “Piers, first of all, I never turn down work that quickly, and actually I’d be quite happy to play you in a movie, it sounds like it would be quite a fun role.” Which is really cool of him. So I’ve learned never say never to anything. But do I hanker to be back on UK terrestrial television? No. What we’re building with our show is really exciting. The numbers speak for themselves. Good Morning Britain has just over a million YouTube subscribers, and we have two million.
Okay, so did you become an advocate of free speech by accident or design?
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