Andrew Neil was warned that Piers Morgan "won't come cheap" by Phillip Schofield as he teased his plans for the former Good Morning Britain host on GB News.
The Scottish journalist appeared on the ITV daytime show and addressed rumours that Piers would join GB News.
Earlier this week. Phil mocked Piers storming off the ITV show after the controversial host was branded "diabolical" by co-star Alex Beresford.
ITV confirmed that Piers had quit GMB following discussions with ITV over his comments about Meghan Markle's Oprah Winfrey interview.
Rather than avoiding the subject, as he and Holly had done yesterday, Phil asked: "Just lastly, Andrew, in the studio next to ours there is a vacant seat, currently. So, um. Piers Morgan flounced out and so will you be offering him a job?"
Andrew responded evasively, suggesting that Piers would be a "great asset" to GB News, the new TV station that he will be setting up.
"I thought you were gonna ask me if I was going to fill the vacant seat," Andrew joked. "We're open to all sorts of offers.
"I think Piers would be a huge asset to [GB News] but I wouldn't want to transfer what he was doing for Good Morning Britain straight to GB News. I would want to do something different."
"He is who he is, isn't he?" Phil questioned.
"He is what he is but I think he's also adaptable," Andrew pointed out and he can do different things in different ways and I think he would be a huge asset to our channel if we can get him and we will try to do so.
"We'll try to come to a mutual agreement but he won't be short of offers, so no doubt there will be a bit of competition."
"He won't come cheap either, I would have thought," Phil remarked. "Quite expensive."
*This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV
