Piers Morgan slams ‘hypocrite’ Stephen Colbert after ‘non-apology’ to Princess Kate
Stephen Colbert made light of Kate, Princess of Wales' whereabouts before her sad cancer announcement last Friday, and Piers Morgan took notice.
Princess Kate announces she is being treated for cancer
Piers Morgan has railed against Stephen Colbert’s “non-apology” to Princess Kate after the talk show host waded into conspiracy theories on The Late Show.
In a New York Post column, Piers branded Stephen a “hypocrite” for his message to viewers after cracking jokes about the Duchess of Cambridge.
The late-night presenter told viewers: “There’s a standard that I try to hold myself to, and that is I do not make light of somebody else’s tragedy.
“I don’t know whether her prognosis is a tragic one, she’s the future queen of England and I assume she’s going to get the best possible medical care…
“But regardless of what it is, far too many of us know that any cancer diagnosis of any kind is harrowing for the patient and for their family.”
Stephen went on to wish Kate a “swift and thorough” recovery.
However, Piers wasn’t convinced by the host’s statement, branding it “pathetically disingenuous”.
He slammed Stephen for choosing to “deliberately promote an unsubstantiated piece of untrue tittle-tattle gossip” in his segment which touched on conspiracy theories about Kate’s whereabouts that were prevalent before her announcement on the BBC.
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“His pitiful excuse for a non-apology last night, in which he didn’t say sorry,” Piers continued, “suggested that it was only once Kate’s illness turned out to be cancer that his “jokes” became something he should feel bad about.
“Yet it’s been known since January that the Princess of Wales had serious abdominal surgery that required two weeks in the hospital, and the palace said she’d be out of action until after Easter.”
Piers also highlighted the fact that Kate’s father-in-law, King Charles III, has also confirmed he has been diagnosed with cancer, saying any jokes made about the royals in this time were “tastelessly inappropriate at best”.
He added that he felt Stephen should know better than to make light of other people’s tragedies, as he himself lost his father and two of his brothers in a plane crash when he was 10 years old.
“It’s hard to imagine a more disgusting failure to live up to a self-imposed standard,” he concluded.
