Piers Morgan sparked a heated Twitter spat with Good Morning Britain’s Richard Bacon – over Apple’s new pregnant man emoji.
The former GMB anchor ended up blasting Richard as ‘ultra-woke’, and Richard slamming Piers’ column in The Sun.
It comes as tech giant Apple have released a new emoji of a pregnant man – seen as a yellow cartoon character holding a baby bum.
It was announced on Thursday that the image would be included in the latest batch of emojis being released in the iOS 15.4 update – after it was approved in September 2021.
However, the move left Piers speechless before branding it “virtue-signaling nonsense”.
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Gobsmacked Piers shared the emoji snap – and blasted it in front of his 7.9 million Twitter followers – claiming the world had ‘gone nuts’.
Alongside the emoji snap, he said: “Apple’s new pregnant man emoji. Words fail me. #TheWorldsGoneNuts.”
However, Piers’ tweet seemed to rub TV presenter Richard Bacon the wrong way, because he hit back at Piers on the social media platform.
Quoting Piers’ tweet, he sarcastically penned: “We’re all furious about this. So angry we don’t know where to look.
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“Would you write a “world’s gone mad” column for The Sun about the film Junior with Danny DeVito? Just to illustrate the point? Before I punch a wall,”
Piers has become the latest celebrity columnist at The Sun.
Morgan wasn’t having it, though, and he fired back: “Mate, if you punched a wall every time your ultra-woke little brain endorsed something the rest of us (99% of the world’s population) think is virtue-signalling nonsense, there would be no walls left on the entire planet.”
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Richard replied: “Guess I lost this argument. Back to bed.”
Taking another dig at Richard, Piers wrote: “stick to your fellow woke dinner parties mate…”, but Richard claimed Piers attended a ‘woke’ dinner himself.
Bacon added: “Like the one I enjoyed running into you at recently?”
Piers was quick to insist: “that wasn’t a dinner party.”
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It comes as Richard stepped in to fill Piers’ shoes as a GMB anchor – presenting the show alongside Charlotte Hawkins and Kate Garraway on separate days.
Others have replaced Piers in the past – including Ben Shephard and Adil Ray.
In September, it was announced that Morgan would join The Sun and the New York Post as a columnist – under News Corp.
Piers began his high-profile journalism career at The Sun in 1988.
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