Piers Morgan Isn’t Happy After Good Morning Britain Viewers Vote For Him To Be Axed From ITV Show

One person Piers can count on for support is his ITV colleague, Lorraine Kelly.

Asked whether he should lose his job over his comments, she told PA: “Of course not. Of course not. It’s ridiculous. But don’t you imagine he is not revelling in all the attention – because he is.

“Actually, he is making a very good point. Whether you agree with someone or not, you can’t have a situation where we are going to shut people down.

She added: “He’s doing it with his tongue firmly in his cheek, of course.

“When he actually said, ‘We are going to debate whether or not I am going to fired,’ and of course my response was: ‘From a cannon?’”

Piers has courted controversy on a number of occasions on GMB with his comments on gender fluidity. 

Last month, he said he identified as a “two-spirit penguin” following the news that a baby penguin at London Aquariam would be raised gender neutral by a lesbian penguin couple.

The aquarium said this was “completely natural”.

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.