Piers Morgan: GMB host forced to explain after

Piers Morgan, 55, is used to ruffling feathers and receiving criticism here, there and everywhere, but after sharing a tweet poking fun at certain social media users, he had to quickly backtrack in order to clarify his comments after it became apparent his wording had included him in the insult. In order to save face and avoid more unnecessary backlash from others the post wasn’t intended for, he made a joke out of it to make light of the mistake.

Taking to Twitter after Monday morning’s Good Morning Britain had finished, the ITV star seemed to have had enough of people who hide behind cartoon smiley faced display pictures on the social media platform.

He wrote: “No offence to everyone with a smiley face profile pic… but can you all loons just f*ck off? Thanks.”

It is unknown as to what set Piers off on his latest rant but his choice of words left some users confused and prompted them to react to his statement.

“Says the man with a smiley face profile pic!!” one retorted, as Piers’ own display picture is of him and footballer Pierre Emerick Aubameyang grinning away.

A second agreed, posting a zoomed in version of Piers’ smiling picture: “Like this one????”

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The two over-seventy year-olds fell ill with the virus after someone in their bubble contracted it.

Even though they’re now on the road to being completely well again, Piers noted his dad is still suffering some symptoms 10-weeks after the “scary” fortnight battle.

In his most recent MailOnline column, the ITV host explained his dad was still without his sense of taste or smell, an important symptom that alerted many they may have contracted the virus during the height of the pandemic.

“My parents are now recovered from their nasty bouts of coronavirus back in November. Well, almost,” he wrote.

“My dad still hasn’t got back his sense of taste or smell, ten weeks later.”