Piers Morgan says he owes his career to Simon Cowell but boasts: “I’m too expensive for him now.”
The former Good Morning Britain presenter has signed a deal with Rupert Murdoch to host a new show which will be aired in the US, UK and Australia.
He will also front crime documentaries and write books for Harper-Collins UK.
And Piers says he didn’t consider Cowell’s new show Walk The Line because the mogul couldn’t afford him.
But a BGT return one day isn’t out of the question – while Piers also revealed his battle with Long Covid has dragged on for weeks.
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Of Cowell’s venture, he says: “I heard about his show but I think I’m too expensive for Simon.”
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror at the TRIC Awards, Piers adds: “I had a three hour walk with him a few weeks ago and we chatted over a few options.
“I wouldn’t have had a career in America without Simon. He put me on America’s Got Talent when no one had ever heard of me and that changed my life really because then I did Celebrity Apprentice which I won.
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" Donald Trump was the host and then he gave me all his interviews off the back of that.
“Then I went to CNN for four years and that was really because of Simon taking that leap of faith.”
Piers, 56, also says that when 61-year-old Simon injured his back after falling off an electric bicycle last year, he sent him a Zimmer frame by post. He adds: “I said to him a man of his age should be riding this!”
Talking about Britain’s Got Talent, he says: “Simon and I always talk about getting the band back together – me, him and Amanda [Holden]. Simon was at his best when I was there, I loved goading him, so you never know.”
Piers was forced out of ITV breakfast show GMB in March in a row over comments about the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.
He had Covid in July but now reveals: “Then I had Long Covid. I can’t taste or smell anything, I’ve got a lot of fatigue and I can’t drink. I’ve tried to shrug it off but it’s been eight or nine weeks now.”
