Piers Morgan lashes out at ‘pathetic’ Alan Cumming for handing back OBE

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Piers Morgan has lashed out at Alan Cumming following the actor’s OBE announcement. I’m now back to being plain old Alan Cumming again.” Broadcaster Morgan hit out at Cumming’s decision, writing on Twitter: “What a pathetic, disingenuous, disloyal, attention-seeking little twerp.” open image in gallery Piers Morgan wasn’t impressed with Alan Cumming’s OBE decision However, Cumming’s fans have heaped praised on the actor, who recently hosted The Traitors US, which is available to stream on BBC iPlayer. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free “I remember sitting there going, ‘Well I have a choice: I either don’t give this lecture and hold on to my OBE or I give this lecture and I have to give my OBE back,’” he said. open image in gallery Alan Cumming has handed back his OBE Sheen said that he’d quietly given the award back as he realised he would have been a “hypocrite” were he to keep it and still give the lecture about “the nature of the relationship between Wales and the British state, and the history of it”.