Piers Morgan was born to architect and model Patrick O’Meara and hospital worker, Gabrielle Rees on March 30 1965 in Newbury, Surrey, England. His family moved to Newick. Around few months after his birth in Sussex, England.
He was raised Catholic. His father, Vincent Eamonn O’Meara, was a dentist, and he passed away when an infant Morgan was only 11 months old. His mother subsequently married a man called Glynne Pughe-Morgan. Piers adopted his stepfather’s last name.
He went to the Chailey School and took journalism at Harlow College. Morgan married Marion Shalloe in 1991. They were blessed with three sons; Albert, Spencer, and Stanley. They divorced in 2008. He wed for the second time to journalist Celia Walden in June of 2010. She is the daughter of the former Conservative MP George Walden.
A year later in November of 2011, the couple blessed with a daughter named Elise. Morgan enjoys the English Premier League football team Arsenal F.C. For politics, Morgan is a conservative.
Piers Morgan Net Worth?
Piers Morgan is a NEWS broadcasted journalist, WRITER editor, & TV personality from English who has an estimated net worth of $20 million. In 1994, at the age of 29, Morgan got to the top of the tabloid journalism period when he was elevated to the editorship of News of the World, making him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in more than half century.
Career
A year later, in 1985, he graduated the South London News as a reporter. In 1988, he begins freelance at the sun newspaper. He then went to the Sun full time in 1994 to write the newspaper’s ‘Bizarre’ tabloid style columnist. Morgan perhaps did not even like movies or pop music but he was able to become the “Friend of the Stars” due to his publicity gift.
He was often depicted along Madonna, David Bowie, Sylvester Stallone, Paul McCartney and many other stars. He was appointed editor of the News of the World in January 1994. That position was personally given to him by Rupert Murdoch.
He was 29 and the youngest editor of a national newspaper in 5o years. He was famous for being brutally invasive over celebrities’ privacy, direct, and audacious in his approach. He resigned from the News of the World in 1995, having published photographs of Catherine Victoria Lockwood, then married to Charles Earl Spencer, leaving a rehab clinic in Surrey. This was against the editors’ code of conducts.
Real Estate
Morgan has houses including two in Britain, a town house in west London and a country house in the East Sussex village of Newick. Morgan London house is a Georgian town house that he bought for $719,000.
Morgan also has a house in Beverly Hills which he bought in 2011 at $5.4 million. One of the former owners of that home was Les Moonves, the former CEO of CBS. Must visit our website for more latest information and news about celebrity’s net worth.