“Last week ended with a miracle: I’ve had an apology from Piers Morgan,” wrote building-botherer Kirstie Allsopp in her Spectator diary last week. “Piers and I used to be friends, and I would often seek his advice on press-related matters,” wrote Allsopp.
“But at the beginning of the pandemic the Daily Mirror printed a hit-job piece about Ben [Andersen, Allsopp’s husband] spending lockdown in Devon, which included the false claim that he was taking up a bed in a small
local hospital. The subsequent abuse we received was pretty scary.”
Morgan has since apologised – a hugely magnanimous move given that he, er, had no role in publishing the story, as he was sacked as Mirror editor in 2004 after publishing fake photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused by British army soldiers. Such is the depth of friendship in celebrity land that Allsopp didn’t seem to notice.
