Piers Morgan online now

[JustineMumsnet]

Hello all,
Piers Morgan, former Editor of the Daily Mirror and News of the World, and now Executive Editor of First News, a weekly newspaper aimed at 9-12 year olds, is coming to Mumsnet for an online chat on Tuesday 10th October at 12.30pm. So make sure you make a note in your diary to log on and post a question. If you can't make the actual event do post your question in advance here. Whilst he can't promise to answer every one he'll do what he can (and we reckon he should be able to type quite fast being a journo and all that).
Best,
MNHQ

PIERS

Are you at home at the moment on Mumsnet?

Have you read any of the other threads on Mumsnet today or before you agreed to come on here?

Did you ask to come on OR did MN Towers ask you?

Would you ever report something you read on Mumsnet in the paper when you worked as a regular journolist?

Oooh, thank you!!

Could you please answer Slug's questions Piers, she's asking them on behalf of lots of us who can't be arsed to re-type or re-phrase them.

Hmmmm, moaningpaper, do you mean his own time or other people's?

Dear WelshBorisKarloff

I didn't split up from my girlfriend when she had cancer. None of my girlfriends have ever - thankfully - had cancer.

You're thinking of the former editor of The Sun, David Yelland, whose wife tragically died of cancer last month.

i think it would be good to have a section in your paper on special needs, for children to learn about it, if you look at the SN topics you will see many of us face children staring at our children as they dont understand what is wrong with them as some parents arent very informative on it, that way they are learning why our children behave or look the way they do

Think Cherie looks a laugh and Diana, er, didn't. Guess I'm also not a Piers person. What a shame.

Piers, Boris isn't thinking of that other fela, she was thinking of Matthew Wright who split with that 'Monkey' woman.

what has slug asked - this thread is too long to search

pretty please

Dear saltire

I wish we hadn't printed an exclusive that Paul McCartney and Heather Mills had had a baby under the headline 'IT'S A BOY!". Because the next day we discovered it was a girl.

As for Paul Burrell, I believe every word he says about Diana and so should you. I saw them together many times, and he was the one she really trusted.

Slug's question in case you've lost it...

So are you going to educate girls that they don't have to get their tits out for the lads or be anexoric clothes horses to be valuable members of society?

Anywa, back to Paxo mode on behalf of slug: "Did you threaten to overrule him?"

In the light of your pithy appraisal of the Prime Minister's wife, what would be your response to someone who called you a muck-racking, gold-digging, morally destitute sleazy little guttersnipe?

Just wondered.

Oh, I have to go in a minute . Piers, your description of Mrs Blair will live forever in my memory!

I think that Diana probably looked a laugh if you were, er, a man

(fella, I can spell.)

Hmmm. Can't agree that Cherie looks a laugh. And I bet she's not if you're her nanny.

I've just seen Slug's question.

Can you answer that one please?

Oh, and one of my own - do you have any regrets? And what are you most proud of (never ending sentences with prepositions, possibly?!).

(OK, that's two questions!)

Piers

Do not get her started on stinky burgers or we will be here all day.

Greensleeves - you're really Cherie Blair, aren't you?

Where do you buy your groceries from?

Exactly mp, exactly. I knew her "dresser"...

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@ Paul Burell defence...

Ick

moo - no, she's nicer than I am

I wonder if you're professional attitude to women ie as seen through your adult papers .. would have been different if one of your boys had been a girl?