‘Uncomfortable and sickeningly gratuitous’: Good Morning Britain viewers attack Thomas Markle interview

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Follow Harry and Meghan Oprah interview live: Latest news and updates He admitted talking to reporters as a means of provoking a reaction from the couple, saying: “I’ll do a story for the press if I don’t hear from them… When they decide to talk to me, I’ll stop talking to the press.” Alluding to his part in staging a paparazzi photo for money prior to their wedding in 2018 and making public a private letter from his daughter, Mr Markle appeared to mock Harry by responding: “We all make mistakes. “I love Meghan and she can be angry with me but I’m still her dad… There must be something left here somewhere.” But the Good Morning Britain interview attracted a highly mixed response on social media, with many viewers attacking ITV for giving Mr Markle a platform given his fraught and well-documented relationship with his daughter and apparent ill health. If this is what commercial breakfast telly is all about, I think I’ll stick with the radio!” “I hate to sincerely engage with the Harry and Meghan story, but the way the media keeps platforming Thomas Markle chills me to the bone,” said New Statesman writer Sarah Manavis. “It should be clear how creepy and sickeningly gratuitous this is.” Mr Markle himself was criticised for disloyalty by reality TV star Mario Falcone as “quite possibly the worst dad in the world” and by journalist Funmi Olutoye, who said: “If my dad went on international television to sell a story on me, I would NEVER talk to him again.” Mr Morgan, who had earlier stormed out of a segment about the row arising from the Winfrey interview, also came in for criticism, with ex-footballer John Barnes tweeting sarcastically: “Hard hitting piers morgan really grilling thomas markle about the fact he wanted to blackmail meghan by saying every month you dont talk to me im going to talk to the press.