Biography
One of Britain's famed newspaper tabloid editors who was notorious for his no-holds-barred approach to reporting on celebrities, Piers Morgan gained mainstream recognition as the cantankerous judge on the U. S. version of the reality competition series, "America's Got Talent" (NBC, 2006- ) alongside David Hasselhoff and Sharon Osbourne. Before embarking on a television career, the razor-tongued Morgan had held top editorial posts at several …
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Career Milestones
2011 | Hosted "Piers Morgan Tonight" on CNN |
2010 | Announced to replace Larry King on his nightly CNN talk show |
2009 | Hosted the ITV1 series "Piers Morgan On " |
2008 | Competed on and ultimately won his season of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" |
2007 | Cast as a judge on "Britain's Got Talent" (ITV) |
2006 | Replaced Simon Cowell as a judge on second season of NBC's top-rated weekly competition series "America's Got Talent"; after six seasons, announced November 2011 he was leaving the show |
2006 | Launched First News, a weekly paper aimed to educate children about political and social issues in a language they could understand |
2004 | Co-hosted short-lived Channel 4 news talk show "Morgan and Platell" with Amanda Platell, a journalist and former press secretary of William Hague, leader of the British Conservative Party |
2003 | Hosted BBC three-part documentary series "The Importance of Being Famous" |
1995 | Named editor of The Daily Mirror; held accountable and ultimately fired from his position in 2004 when the paper featured fake photos of British soldiers abusing alleged Iraqi prisoners at an unknown location in Iraq |
1994 | Became youngest national newspaper editor in more than half a century when he took editorial helm of News of the World |