Piers Morgan has been hospitalized for a broken hip after he “tripped on a small step,” the U.K. host shared on social media over the weekend.
Alongside a selfie from a hospital bed, Morgan detailed his injury, saying that it happened in a London restaurant, where he “fell like a sack of spuds” and “fractured [the] neck of [his] femur … so badly [he] needed a new hip.”
He added that as part of his recovery, he will be on crutches for six weeks and can’t take any “long-haul” flights for 12 weeks. He jokingly added, “I blame Donald Trump.”
In a subsequent posts, Morgan indicated that his sense of humor was still intact as he shared an image of himself holding a newspaper reporting on his injury and a clip from Good Morning Britain, where the hosts speculated that he might’ve been drinking wine when he fell. “To clarify, ZERO alcohol was involved in the incident.”
Morgan currently hosts his eponymous YouTube talk show, Piers Morgan Uncensored.
Morgan’s relationship with Trump has run hot and cold. They were initially friends as Morgan won the Trump-hosted Celebrity Apprentice in 2008. But his opinion of the president shifted near the end of Trump’s first term as Morgan was disappointed in how he responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and attacked him in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Trump also sat for a contentious interview with Morgan in 2022 before the pair reportedly buried the hatchet amid Trump’s 2024 election win.
Last month, though, when Trump criticized Rob Reiner after the acclaimed director and his wife were killed in their home, Morgan said the comments crossed “every line of basic human decency.”
This weekend, prior to announcing his fall, Morgan poked fun at Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on European countries that opposed his effort to secure U.S. control of Greenland.
“Britain should repurchase America,” Morgan wrote on X. “After all, it was ours once, and it would enhance our North Atlantic security. If you don’t sell it to us, President Trump, we’re going to impose tariffs on the U.S. and any country who supports you in resisting this very good deal. Fair?”
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