Piers Morgan has a bad habit of stepping into it on Twitter, although that seems to be how he gets attention nowadays. He was in the news just a few days ago for statements about the Women’s March, including such gems as “I’m planning a ‘Men’s March’ to protest at the creeping global emasculation of my gender by rabid feminists.” He also dismissively asserted, “Let’s be honest, ladies… today’s Women’s March is just an anti-democratic protest at Trump winning the presidency.” (His Twitter profile picture is him with Donald Trump, if you were wondering.)
Ewan McGregor wasn’t happy about some of the things Morgan said, and when he found out he was about to be interviewed by Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain this morning, he said no thanks.
https://twitter.com/mcgregor_ewan/status/823805815488331776
McGregor may be promoting T2: Trainspotting, but he doesn’t have to help anybody’s ratings if he doesn’t want to. Especially when they’ve slighted his daughters, who were at the march:
https://twitter.com/mcgregor_ewan/status/822878230566748160
Piers Morgan was miffed at the last minute cancellation, of course, and said several things on Twitter, including:
Sorry to hear that @mcgregor_ewan – you should be big enough to allow people different political opinions. You're just an actor after all.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 24, 2017
I'll be writing a column about @mcgregor_ewan today, once I have sent it to him for his approval.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 24, 2017
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.
Well, there wasn’t any back and forth after that, but there were plenty of other people on Twitter quick to roast one party to this kerfuffle. If it isn’t obvious by looking at the number of retweets on those statements, most of the Twitter responses sided with “anybody but Piers Morgan” again.
Some of Morgan’s detractors pointed out the obvious:
https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/823820203318530049
Others just enjoyed watching the spectacle unfold:
Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose to tell Piers Morgan to go fck himself #ewanmcgregor
— ✨Jane Graham✨ (@Janeannie) January 24, 2017
Obi-Wan Kenobi is still our only hope. https://t.co/FC2u8KrI9A
— Tony Thaxton (@tonythaxton) January 24, 2017
And some of the tweets referenced Morgan’s former scandals.
https://twitter.com/KeetPotato/status/823831921524408320
But some who agreed with McGregor took things a bit too far.
Ok I like the prequels now https://t.co/0reSTDkA8S
— Brian Collins (@BrianWCollins) January 24, 2017
Now now. Settle down, Internet.
Meanwhile, others can only express a deep sadness.
Very sad to hear about Piers Morgan. Nothing's happened to him, I'm just very sad to hear about him.
— Moose Allain Ꙭ (@MooseAllain) January 21, 2017
Anyway, we’re certain McGregor is very concerned about what Morgan will say in that article he threatened to write…
