A mystery hoaxer claiming to be Piers Morgan completely fooled Donald Trump during a phone conversation earlier this year, the Good Morning Britain presenter has told The Londoner.
Morgan said President Trump revealed the hoax to him in a call on October 24. “I don’t think he realised until one of his aides told him I hadn’t actually spoken to him,” he told us. “I keep expecting it to appear somewhere but it hasn’t so far,” Morgan added.
He said he had “no idea” who the hoaxer was, but had some suspicions about their possible inspiration. “I think whoever it was heard me giving advice to Trump on [US TV show] Fox and Friends, and thought they’d get lucky if they put a call in pretending to be me.”
Russian hoaxers fooled Prince Harry into thinking he was having a call with Greta Thunberg early this year. And in March, UK prankster Archie Manners tricked Right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins into receiving a fake award.
Morgan met Trump when he won the Celebrity Apprentice in 2008, during a career stint in America. Trump unfollowed Morgan on Twitter when the GMB presenter started to criticise his coronavirus response.
Missy Elliot paved the way, says Runway
Singer Bree Runway says she almost smashed her laptop and burst into tears when she heard Missy Elliott’s contribution to her new mixtape. Runway explained that the US rap artist is “someone who has paved the way for an alternative girl like myself”. She told Gay Times: “I had to control myself. I just got up and I started crying instantly. I almost dropped my laptop on the floor. I was like, ‘Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.’”
Cheeky verdict on Biden victory
THE latest news outlet to find a local angle on the US election is Legal Cheek, writing: “Law graduate who came 76/85 in his class set to become world’s most powerful person”. And the Ayrshire Times had fun again with: “South Ayrshire golf club owner loses 2020 presidential election.
Shaw: anyone can play a gay character
FIONA SHAW thinks there should be no “boundaries” on who can play gay characters. Shaw, who is gay herself, said: “I’m Irish, and I’d hate to believe that I wasn’t allowed to play English people.” She stars in Ammonite, about a 19th-century scientist’s imagined lesbian relationship.
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NEVENA BRIDGEN, the opera singer married to MP Andrew Bridgen, feels “a lot of empathy” for Melania Trump as the two were both born in the former republic of Yugoslavia. The Wives of Westminster blog founder, who flew to the U.S. to report on the election, told us she felt the “atmosphere change” when she said anything positive about Melania. She said: “Her accent was ridiculed.”
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NO deal is out – No deals is in. Lord Moylan, recently made a peer by Boris Johnson, told French ex-diplomat Gérard Araud on the weekend: “You grossly overestimate the value Boris Johnson has ever put on an FTA [Free Trade Agreement] with the USA. Indeed, it would have negligible economic value, like most FTAs.” Err, isn’t that the point of this whole Brexit thing?
