Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan was born in Britain on March 30, 1965. He is a journalist, author, broadcaster, and television personality. Morgan was born Piers Stefan O’Meara in Surrey, the son of Vincent Eamonn O’Meara, an Irish dentist from County Offaly, and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille, an Englishwoman who reared Morgan as a Catholic. Jeremy, his older brother, is two years his senior. After his birth, the family immediately relocated to Newick, East Sussex.
In 1988, he started working for The Sun, where his Fleet Street career officially began. As the News of the World’s youngest editor in more than 50 years, Rupert Murdoch appointed him editor in 1994 when he was just 29 years old. He was the editorial director of First News from 2006 until 2007.
Morgan stopped using his double-barreled name when he began working as a freelancer for The Sun in 1988. In January 1994, Rupert Murdoch appointed him to the post of editor of the News of the World.
How long was Piers Morgan married to his first wife?
Morgan wed Marion Shalloe, a hospital ward nun, in 1991. The couple, who wed in 2004 and divorced in 2008, had three sons.
