Piers Morgan has jumped in to show support for Sharon Osbourne while criticising Whoopi Goldberg for her controversial comments about the Holocaust.
During a discussion on American talk show The View, Whoopi, 66 and her co-hosts discussed a Tennessee school board choosing to ban Maus, a graphic novel about Holocaust.
In the chat, Whoopi said: “Let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race.”
She later added: “The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. That’s the problem.”
Amid the controversy Piers has since chimed into the conversation and raised the treatment of his friend Sharon Osbourne who was fired from the American chat show The Talk after being accused of racism.
(Image: CBS/The Late Show)
Piers wrote on Twitter: “Sharon Osbourne was fired from The Talk for defending me against a fake charge of racism.”
“Whoopi Goldberg said on The View yesterday that the Holocaust ‘wasn’t about race’, which for Jewish people is about as racist a comment as anyone could make. Bet she doesn’t lose her job.”
Sharon’s comment on The Talk was in March 2021 after she defended Piers’ remarks about Meghan Markle’s televised interview with Oprah Winfrey.
(Image: Piers Morgan/Instagram)
In a heated discussion with Sharon’s The Talk co-host Sheryl Underwood, she said: “I will ask you again Sheryl… and don’t try and cry because if anyone should be crying, it should be me… You tell me where you have heard him say racist things.”
In the recent incident with Whoopi, the Sister Act actress has been widely criticised for her comments.
She has been branded as “ignorant” and has since apologised for hurting Jewish people “around the world”.
The 66-year-old actress has been suspended from the show for two weeks.
ABC News president Kim Godwin has since issued a statement which said: “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments.”
The Holocaust is widely defined as the state-sanctioned extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany across Europe during the Second World War.
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