{"id":377384,"date":"2026-01-18T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:51:07","slug":"piers-morgan-hospitalized-after-nasty-fall-i-blame-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377384\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan hospitalized after nasty fall: \u2018I blame Donald Trump\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GUTH4JFXLRA4JCGJ43XVZV6DNA\">British television personality Piers Morgan, 60, announced Sunday that he has been hospitalized due to a fall that broke his hip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T27WMCVHNBADJCHI2NO4PJ2J2E\">In a post to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@piersmorgan\/post\/DTpy-KOiEaV?xmt=AQF0-uaghIG2gY6Rw3xuhQkuw4gW98q7GdRgQ9PaOs0apwjrHEZgsqbAQkc6jIgiFSZIG_s&amp;slof=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@piersmorgan\/post\/DTpy-KOiEaV?xmt=AQF0-uaghIG2gY6Rw3xuhQkuw4gW98q7GdRgQ9PaOs0apwjrHEZgsqbAQkc6jIgiFSZIG_s&amp;slof=1\"> Threads<\/a>, Morgan summed up the sequence of events that led to his injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SXO7YBNNPJGMDFMYFEWT53VIDM\">\u201c1. Tripped on a small step. 2. Inside a London hotel restaurant. 3. Fell like a sack of spuds. 4. Fractured neck of femur. 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,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2LO4OP62LRHDRAJAF42772WZPY\">Morgan said his 2026 was \u201coff to a cracking start!\u201d and finished the post with a tongue in cheek comment aimed at the president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EU3ROLIG35HZHFO33MH5JLJAK4\">\u201cI blame Donald Trump,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KZWAWEEUNRCMPOHYBICZPQKUOI\">No stranger to <a href=\"https:\/\/populartimelines.com\/timeline\/Piers-Morgan\/controversies-scandals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/populartimelines.com\/timeline\/Piers-Morgan\/controversies-scandals\">controversy,<\/a> Morgan, who was previously a friend to and strong supporter of Trump, has publicly opposed the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/piers-morgan-regrets-supporting-trump-after-capitol-riots-2021-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/piers-morgan-regrets-supporting-trump-after-capitol-riots-2021-1\">since the Jan. 6 insurrection.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4L4EKJTQWNAQDPDOO2MQUBCDZI\">\u201cI never thought he was capable of this,\u201d Morgan said in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"G5K3JF7L3FGDBNJ5XHICBEZWWI\">\u201cHe has played down to the very worst expectations of his worst critics\u2026 But I never imagined the person I had known for 15 years would incite a mob to attack the Capitol in America and attack democracy itself. He didn\u2019t just cross a line, he trampled all over that line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HFPZWENATZAUTG5LUYJ2RVZXMA\">In the years since, Morgan has called Trump out multiple times on his talk show, \u201cPiers Morgan Uncensored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"25ZHBA6GZRCNPC5T5LN67EZDKY\">Most recently, the host condemned Trump\u2019s comments about the late Rob Reiner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"W3RZ4M2JRJAOLCQLSNEOUAKFD4\">After Reiner and his wife Michele were found murdered in their home on Dec. 14, Trump wrote that director had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2025\/12\/donald-trump-alleges-rob-reiner-died-from-trump-derangement-syndrome.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2025\/12\/donald-trump-alleges-rob-reiner-died-from-trump-derangement-syndrome.html\">a \u201cmassive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PK442XIRKFHTVGFUN7UWNDCFSU\">Morgan said the president\u2019s comments crossed \u201cevery line of basic human decency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British television personality Piers Morgan, 60, announced Sunday that he has been hospitalized due to a fall that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[143513,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-377384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-british-academy-of-film-and-television-arts","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377384","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=377384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}