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Piers Morgan makes surprise return to ITV as he speaks out to support close CBB friend
Journalist Piers returned to the small screen as he backed his pal amid their eviction nomination
PIERS Morgan made a surprise return to ITV last night as he spoke out to support his close Celebrity Big Brother friend.
Journalist Piers, 60, backed former fellow TalkTV star Trisha Goddard, 67, during an appearance on spin-off show, Late & Live, amid her eviction nomination.
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It comes four years after he stormed off the set and quit his former role as Good Morning Britain anchor.
Sun columnist Piers left the ITV breakfast show in 2021 in a row over his comments about Meghan Markle.
His latest move marks a third appearance on the channel since his departure, counting a guest return to GMB last month and a previous Lorraine interview.
In a video message sent in to the programme, he described Trisha as a “resilient” and “determined” force, praising her ability to get along with others - even when holding them to account.
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He said: "Trisha we've known each other a very long time, way longer than either of us would like to admit and I want to wish you all the very best in there in that mad jungle.
"I'm sure that your natural strengths of resilience and determination and your ability to get on with people, even if occasionally you hold them to account, I think will show you in your best light and I want to wish you all the very best."
While their friendship goes way back, Piers notably interviewed the TV personality on Life Stories in 2021 as well as during various Good Morning Britain appearances.
Chat show legend Trisha will go up against EastEnders’ Patsy Palmer and Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd in a bid to be saved by the public.
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Natalie Cassidy spoke out in favour of Patsy while CBB alum Colson Smith and Lucy Fallon supported Jack.
It was initially expected to be a double eviction, but will now be just one star following Mickey Rourke's exit.
CBB in race row as Trisha Goddard accuses housemate of ‘Islamophobia’ in tense scenes
In explosive scenes last night, alliances crumbled and true feelings come out as housemates turned on each other.
Jack received four nominations from Angellica, Danny, Donna and Trisha.
Patsy received six nominations from Angellica, Chesney, Chris, Danny, JoJo and Trisha.
Meanwhile, Trisha received four nominations from Chesney, Chris, Ella and Patsy.
Chesney Hawkes said: "I think there was a few times when I was talking about something emotional, and then she's just... took it off to what she wanted to talk about."
And as tensions rose between Ella and JoJo, the Towie star nominated Chris, saying: "My first nomination is Chris. I feel like he's keeping himself to one person only, and that's obviously JoJo."
Meanwhile, JoJo nominated Ella saying: "I feel like there has been a lot of gossip coming from her. I heard her spreading gossip today with my name."
Chris also nominated Ella with his reasoning being: "She takes things very personally, which aren't personal."
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The results, left fans reeling, with one confused viewer writing: “Not sure how or why Patsy is getting so many nominations.”
A second added: “I kind of feel bad for Jack, he's clearly not done anything bad because we would've seen it so it just feels like they don't like him for the sake of it.”
While a third said: "Patsy has been such a pleasant surprise. I thought she'd be the token boring soap star but Jack has taken that role. I'm loving her, hope she stays."
Last week, CBB found itself at the centre of a race row after Trisha accused one housemate of 'Islamophobia'.
Trisha was quick to throw the term at politician Michael as he gave a speech to their co-stars.
The former Conservative MP was addressing the housemates after being told to give a 'speech' for the latest CBB task.
Michael began by announcing that he would scrapped the controversial HS2 high-speed train serviced that will eventually link Manchester and London.
He was then asked by EastEnders star Patsy Palmer whether the UK should ever rejoin the European Union.
Michael said he does not think it should before the subject moved on to immigration at the request of Chesney Hawkes.
The former MP for Lichfield in Staffordshire told the housemates that he welcomes immigrants, providing they don't expect to "change everybody's" way of thinking.
He explained he has a French surname and is of "Jewish extraction", to which Trisha shouted: "Oi!"
Michael continued: "Jewish people when they usually come to this country believe, do in Rome as the Roman's do."
"Do not come to this country if your aim is to change everybody to your way of thinking."
Trisha immediately piped up and shouted: "Hang on!"
She continued: "Are you slipping into Islamophobia? Because you're going to have trouble. It’s getting dangerous."
Michael - who admitted he had no filter before entering the CBB house - looked taken aback and refuted her claim, saying: "Who has mentioned Islam?"
As Daley Thompson got up to leave, Trisha said: "Yeah, it's getting dangerous."
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Michael continued: "I'm trying to explain this country has benefited from wave upon wave of immigration."
He later received support from some of his fellow housemates, including Chris Hughes and Chesney.
Michael has since become the first housemate to be evicted from Celebrity Big Brother 2025.
When asked by hosts AJ Odudu and Will Best about the incident, he slammed Trisha for "having an agenda".
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"She misunderstands how politics is a broad thing and how you can be a left wing Tory and a right wing Labour guy. They overlap," he said.
Michael added: "I think only one person took it too seriously but anyway."
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