'Toe-curlingly snivelling sycophant' - Piers Morgan blasts Sheffield's Dan Walker in royal Twitter spat

Piers Morgan has branded BBC presenter and Sheffield resident Dan Walker a ‘snivelling sycophant’ in a bitter Twitter spat over the royal family.
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Piers angrily accused the Duke and Duchess of Sussex of being self-obsessed, after they spoke of their own struggles while on a trip to Africa to highlight racism, poverty and violence against women.

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His tweet was ridiculed by BBC Breakfast host Walker in a post that prompted Piers to respond: "Imagine being the dullest, most excruciatingly virtue-signalling, tediously opinion-devoid, toe-curlingly snivelling sycophant on TV?”

Walker laughed off Piers' insult and said he was "losing the plot."

Sunday night's documentary provided a rare insight into Harry and Meghan's life.

Dan Walker and Piers Morgan.Dan Walker and Piers Morgan.
Dan Walker and Piers Morgan.

The 38-year-old revealed how she tried to adopt the Royal Family’s stiff upper lip — but found it “really damaging.”

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The Duchess of Sussex said: “You’ve got to thrive, you’ve got to feel happy. And I think I really tried to adopt the British sensibility of a stiff upper lip.

“I’ve tried but I think that what that does internally is probably really damaging.

“I never thought this would be easy. But I thought it would be fair and that’s the part that’s really hard to reconcile.

“But I do just take each day as it comes.”

Meanwhile Prince Harry described his mental health and the way he deals with the pressures of his life as a matter of "constant management."

He said: "Part of this job is putting on a brave face but, for me and my wife, there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue.”