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<\/p>\nPiers Morgan has been hospitalised following a fall at a London hotel restaurant that left him requiring emergency hip replacement surgery.<\/p>\n
The broadcaster sustained a fractured femur after tripping on a small step, with the injury proving severe enough to necessitate a complete hip replacement.<\/p>\n
Mr Morgan shared the news with his followers on social media, posting images from his hospital bed alongside an X-ray showing the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n
The former Good Morning Britain presenter admitted he “fell like a sack of spuds” after misjudging the step, resulting in the serious injury that has now left him recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n
Piers Morgan has been hospitalised<\/p>\n
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The 60-year-old television personality documented his ordeal on Instagram, sharing photographs of himself lying in his hospital bed as well as the stark X-ray image revealing his broken hip.<\/p>\n
Mr Morgan took a characteristically humorous approach to announcing his misfortune, posting a numbered list on both Instagram and X that detailed the sequence of events leading to his hospitalisation.<\/p>\n
In his post, he wrote: “1. Tripped on a small step. 2. Inside a London hotel restaurant. 3. Fell like a sack of spuds. 4. Fractured neck of femur.<\/p>\n
“5. So badly I needed a new hip. 6. Recovering in hospital. 7. Crutches for 6 weeks. 8. No long-haul flying for 12 weeks. 9. New Year off to a cracking start! 10. I blame Donald Trump.”<\/p>\n
The tongue-in-cheek accusation against his close friend mirrors a similar joke from 2019, when Mr Morgan blamed President Trump, Brexit and vegan sausage rolls, for a stomach condition that required hospital treatment.<\/p>\n
Fellow television personalities were quick to offer their support in the comments section beneath Mr Morgan’s posts.<\/p>\n
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In March 2021, Piers Morgan left ITV’s Good Morning Britain over a row regarding comments he made about Meghan Markle<\/p>\n
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“Jeez speedy recovery,” First Dates star Fred Sirieix responded while ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly wrote: “You daft bugger – hope you are OK!”<\/p>\n
Former cricketer Monty Panesar also chimed in, writing: “Wishing you a quick recovery so you can celebrate Arsenal’s success!”<\/p>\n
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Lorraine Kelly was among those wishing Piers well<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Loose Women’s Katie Piper urged Mr Morgan to “get well soon”, and jockey Frankie Dettori similarly penned: “Get well soon buddy,” alongside a love heart emoji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan has been hospitalised following a fall at a London hotel restaurant that left him requiring emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,3623,156,71396,111,139,69,51066],"class_list":{"0":"post-239866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-good-morning-britain","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-sgg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}