GB News bosses must think Nigel Farage is worth every penny of the reported million quid they pay him, his box office appeal enabled them to beat Talk TV into the ground and off the air – despite Piers Morgan’s braggodicous bravado. Nigel keeps the upstart channel competitive. Given no TV licence fee taxpayers’ money is being squandered, what’s the problem? Nigel is being paid a market rate for his talent.
Could it be that rival media personalities are despairingly comparing their pay? The bland auto-cuties on a mere quarter or a third of a million quid must be livid. We love to see it!
Michael Ashcroft’s “Red Queen” biography of Angela Rayner has already generated a lot of headlines, Guido is of the view that the biggest story in the book is yet to be told. In an almost throw-away paragraph at the end of Chapter Nine in the book is an explosive tale:
“What is perhaps more intriguing is that, throughout this time, there was alarm bordering on paranoia in select Labour circles that the extramarital affair of a senior party figure other than Rayner was in danger of being exposed. Most damagingly, the male politician at the centre of the claims is said to have enjoyed a long-standing relationship with a woman that had lasted until after his own wife was pregnant with their first child. The politician’s lover, who is herself a public figure, then went on to have a child of her own. She left the name of her child’s father off her child’s birth certificate. This led to concerns that the Labour politician was in fact the child’s father, but there was no evidence to support that.”
It is a story that hacks are gossiping about in private, the story has been going around in legal circles for years and Guido hears that more than one newspaper is only now trying to stand the story up. Labour’s senior campaign operatives are well aware of the story and are said to have prepared a counter-strategy if it breaks during the election campaign.
Most Lobby hacks are aware of the name of the “senior party figure” in question and yet seem strangely incurious to investigate. Guido has however seen the birth certificate in question where the father’s name is left blank. Curious…
Given how a recent PM was asked over and over again about his private life before and once he was PM, including how many children he had, Lobby hacks seem strangely lacking in curiosity during this campaign. Perhaps we will have to wait for someone like Piers Morgan or Nick Robinson to ask the classic question “Have you ever been unfaithful to your wife?” Maybe Nick Ferrari could ask the same question he asked of Boris; “How many children do you have?”
The usually tame Question Time saw a well-anticipated bit of mud-slinging between Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan as Morgan accused Nigel of “bottling it” for not standing in the election. Farage pointed out he had a television show to take care of during the year so far. Unlike Piers…
Morgan parroted the face-saving line: “I came off I came off old linear television“. Farage notes, as Guido reported, that Morgan was actually sacked…
Eventually Fiona Bruce shut down the shouting match amid cries of “YouTuber!“. Morgan’s sour face at the end reveals all…
Morgan has led the charge onto YouTube after getting fired from TalkTV by Rupert Murdoch. Last Guido checked, his 17-strong TalkTV team were scrabbling for an exit. It looks like it was them who did the heavy lifting when it came to booking guests…
The audio is not safe for work. What happens when you go YouTube only…
Piers Morgan has now executed his shift to YouTube after being fired by Rupert Murdoch from TalkTV 2 years into his 3-year deal. It’s not looking rosy for the YouTuber as he kicks off his new career talking to exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Without a miracle Piers can’t ratchet up the views to support his operation…
The average YouTuber earns about $0.01-$0.03 per ad view, so if Morgan is racking up one-million view videos he can hope to receive up to $30,000. The problem is, he isn’t. Morgan’s videos in the last week average around 500,000 views. That’s not going to put bread on tables…
Guido hears Piers’ 17-strong staff are in a panic about Uncensored‘s prospects and are firing off begging emails to other teams at TalkTV to get shifts. Some are considering jumping ship to better-performing GB News. Revenue-strapped TalkTV can’t support them all…
Prince Harry statement after winning case against Mirror…
After our victory in December, Mirror Group have finally conceded the rest of my claim, which would have consisted of another two trials, additional evidence and 115 more articles. Everything we said was happening at Mirror Group was in fact happening, and indeed far worse as the Court ruled in its extremely damaging judgment. As the judge said this morning, we have uncovered and proved the shockingly dishonest way in which the Mirror acted for so many years and then sought to conceal the truth. In light of this, we call again for the authorities to uphold the rule of law and to prove that no one is above it.
That includes Mr Morgan, who as editor, knew perfectly well what was going on, as the judge held. Even his own employer realised it simply could not call him as a witness of truth at the trial. His contempt for the court’s ruling and his continued attacks ever since demonstrate why it was so important to obtain a clear and detailed judgment. As I said back in December, our mission continues. I believe in the positive change it will bring for all of us. It is the very reason why I started this, and why I will continue to see it through to the end.
