Piers Morgan taking break from GMB after petition to get him sacked (Picture: Rex)

Piers Morgan will be taking a break from Good Morning Britain after a petition was launched to get the presenter sacked.

The star has caused much controversy on the show after expressing his views on gender.

And it seems viewers have had enough, as earlier this week, a campaign was created to try and get the 54-year-old fired from hosting the popular breakfast programme.

After pleading to stay on the show, it looks like fans have got what they wished for as Piers announced today he was taking a couple of weeks off.


But not because of the campaign, no, ITV confirmed to Metro.co.uk that the star is having a little holiday while the kids are on half-term.



As the credits started to roll, the father-of-four said: ‘Good Morning Britain is back tomorrow. I’m not. I’ll see you in a couple of weeks. Bye.’

He’ll be enjoying the half-term holidays (Picture: Rex)

The ITV daytime series launched a Twitter poll on Monday (14 October) to see whether fans wanted to keep Piers on-screen.

Over the course of the past two days, 482,270 voted, with 60 per cent agreeing that the star should be booted off.

‘It’s now been hijacked by these snowflake websites and Twitter handles, so all last night they were like, “We’ve got to get rid of him, get rid of him!”, they actually think they can get rid of me,’ Piers said ahead of the final results.

‘We’ve now had over 300,000 votes, one of the biggest in the history of the show, and it’s now moved 59% against me, now viewers, you’re not the snowflake brigade, you are my people.’

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He added: ‘You are my army, I need you to get busy this morning. We cannot let the snowflakes win.’

A further campaign emerged on Change.org calling for Piers’ termination.

‘Morgan dictates to his viewers that it’s acceptable to deny an LGBTQ+ person of their rights; it’s acceptable to tell them they don’t exist; it’s acceptable to call them “snowflakes” when they get rightfully upset,’ part of the petition’s description reads.

‘These are the lessons Morgan teaches. ITV, as a major broadcasting corporation with a worldwide reach, are currently tarnishing a long-lasting legacy by using one of their highest-performing programmes as a vehicle to spread hate and intolerance.’

At the time of writing, 47,650 people have signed the other Change.org petition.

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.

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