Piers Morgan has announced he will not respond to his own name today as he is “identifying as Brad Pitt”.
The controversial broadcaster made the announcement after clashing with Munroe Bergdorf on Good Morning Britain over the news that a Brighton school revealed 40 students do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth and a further 36 consider themselves gender fluid.
After the debate, an incensed Morgan carried on his tirade with a tweet about his own identity.
He wrote: “I am today identifying as Brad Pitt & will be very offended if anyone refuses to respect this.”
Morgan was labelled a “bigot” by Bergdorf during the heated debate after he slammed the report as a “farce”.
He said: “No one is going to persuade me that these kids woke up one day and decided to be gender fluid. Where does this end?
“Do we end up with literally nobody in the future identifying as male and female?
“I think it's a farce.”
Asked by Morgan if this was a “fad with heads being turned”, Bergdorf replied: “I don’t think so. I think what we are seeing is children expressing or experimenting with their gender…”
Susanna Reid interrupted Bergdorf to say that expressing was a “different thing” before Morgan took over the conversation again.
But Reid defended her co-host when Bergdorf accused him of “bringing on non-binary people to berate them”, denying that this is a “constant” occurrence on the show.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
