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He's been fired, censured, investigated, rebuked by a judge, and questioned by police. @piersmorgan has a reputation as "Teflon Piers" for surviving scandals.

Take a look inside his career leading up to his departure from ITV's "Good Morning Britain."
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Morgan refused to believe Meghan Markle, who said she felt suicidal over race-baiting reporting by British tabloids. Despite heavy criticism, his decision to "fall on my sword for an honestly-held opinion" found favor with many supporters. insider.com/piers-morgan-q…

Morgan, 55, has been married twice and has four children. He began his career on the Wimbledon News in 1985 and was "insanely competitive" when playing tennis, according to his former colleague Rob McGibbon.

He always understood the value of schmoozing. As a young gossip columnist on The Sun tabloid, Morgan proposed that he should appear in celebrity photos to boost his status.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch made Morgan editor of the News of the World, a tabloid with a 4.7 million circulation, at 28. In 1995, Morgan ran long-lens photos of the sister-in-law of Diana, Princess of Wales, as she left an addiction clinic. businessinsider.com/inside-the-sca…

Next came the scandal of "City Slickers," a share-tipping column Morgan set up at the Daily Mirror. He bought £67,000 of shares in Viglen, a tech company, the day before the column tipped them as a good buy. The City Slickers authors were convicted of criminality and sacked.

Morgan continues to deny involvement in phone-hacking, the scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World in 2011. But Morgan referred to the practice of dialing into private voicemails as early as 2001 and joked about it at parties.

Morgan was fired from the Mirror in 2004 after publishing what were determined to be faked photos purporting to show Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers during the Gulf War. But Morgan went on to become a judge on "America’s Got Talent."
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Morgan's lionization of Trump, with whom he has been friends since he won "The Celebrity Apprentice" in 2008, antagonized many. But he later turned against Trump over his mishandling of the pandemic and incitement of supporters at the US Capitol.
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Morgan's latest job departure coincides with the launches in the UK of two conservative TV news outlets. GB News is being led by former BBC presenter Andrew Neil, an old friend who says he would love Morgan to join him.

Contacted by Insider, Morgan declined to contribute to this article. "I'd rather let everyone else have their say," he said.

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