Piers Morgan Tried to Whitesplain Racism to Me on TV

Two years ago, I debated the ex-‘Good Morning Britain’ host — and he was exactly who you’d think

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5 min readMar 17, 2021

Still from a Good Morning Britain broadcast. Jeremy Heller, a Black man with a shaved head, above a chyron that says: “Developing story. Jeremy Helligar: Writer and journalist,” and in front of a blurred photo of a worried-looking Liam Neeson holding a cellphone to his ear. — Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid interviewed me on ‘Good Morning Britain’ in February 2019. Photo from my personal collection.

This month, Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan clashed on air with three Black people — his colleague, Alex Beresford, and two GMB guests — over his dismissal of Meghan Markle’s charges of racism in the royal…

Piers Morgan Tried to Whitesplain Racism to Me on TV

Two years ago, I debated the ex-‘Good Morning Britain’ host — and he was exactly who you’d think

Written by Jeremy Helligar