{"id":147540,"date":"2025-09-19T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147540\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:38:08","slug":"piers-morgan-brands-john-cleese-hypocrite-in-angry-clash-over-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147540\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan brands John Cleese \u2018hypocrite\u2019 in angry clash over Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Piers Morgan<\/a> has clashed with John Cleese<\/a> over a disagreement about Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, who was suspended from his talk show for remarks on the shooting<\/a> of Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monty Python star Cleese hit out at Morgan on Thursday (18 September) when the broadcaster accused suspended US late-night host Kimmel of lying about Kirk\u2019s suspected gunman in comments that saw his show indefinitely pulled from TV schedules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis from Piers Morgan. who has made a fortune working for Rupert Murdoch,\u201d Cleese wrote on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n

Morgan branded Fawlty Towers comedian Cleese \u201ca flaming old hypocrite\u201d after he blasted Morgan for his association with the media empire leader.<\/p>\n

Morgan replied: \u201cYou took Rupert\u2019s money too, you flaming old hypocrite. I\u2019m just proud of it.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted Cleese for comment. The actor previously said he has \u201cchosen not to work\u201d with Murdoch over the years.<\/p>\n

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Piers Morgan hits back at John Cleese\u2019s criticism on social media (X\/Twitter)<\/p>\n

The pair have traded blows before, with Cleese calling Morgan \u201clazy\u201d and \u201csloppy\u201d in January 2025.<\/p>\n

Cleese was weighing in on a row between Morgan and actor Hugh Grant<\/a> over Murdoch when he called the Notting Hill actor a \u201chypocrite\u201d, claiming the actor had taken \u201cmany millions of pounds\u201d from Murdoch to make films for him.<\/p>\n

Grant fired back 15 minutes later: \u201cBulls***. The last time I worked for a Murdoch-owned company was in 1994. Which was long before I knew anything about his papers\u2019 methods.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince then, I have turned down every single job offer emanating from a Murdoch-owned company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cleese addressed the row on X, writing that the argument \u201cclearly illustrates the difference between a well-educated mind and a lazy, sloppy tabloid one\u201d.<\/p>\n

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(Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cNB: the man who is defending Murdoch has taken millions from him. Hugh and I choose not to work for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan wrote back: \u201cI\u2019m bemused. You say you\u2019ve chosen not to work for Rupert Murdoch, yet you starred in The Day The Earth Stood Still in 2008, which was produced by 20th Century Fox, owned at the time by… Rupert Murdoch. Were you being lazy, sloppy, or just a lying hypocrite?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-147540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}