{"id":142983,"date":"2018-06-19T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/susanna-reid-in-constant-battle-with-piers-morgan\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T00:10:18","slug":"susanna-reid-in-constant-battle-with-piers-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/susanna-reid-in-constant-battle-with-piers-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Susanna Reid in ‘constant battle’ with Piers Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Morgan and Reid have been co-presenting on ITV since 2015 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid has revealed she feels she wages "a constant battle for airtime" with her outspoken co-host Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n

"Sometimes I open my mouth to ask a question and hear Piers's voice come out," she told the Radio Times.<\/p>\n

"You can't help but go into battle with him every morning," continued Reid, who quit the BBC for ITV in 2014.<\/p>\n

Morgan and Reid have proved a winning partnership for ITV, though its morning show still trails behind BBC Breakfast.<\/p>\n

BBC One's breakfast programme has an average daily average of 1.5 million, around twice the audience who tune into its commercial rival.<\/p>\n

Image caption Reid previously presented BBC Breakfast alongside Bill Turnbull and others <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former tabloid editor Morgan joined Good Morning Britain in 2015 with the stated aim of making the show "unpredictable, provocative [and] lively".<\/p>\n

"I just took a view that the way to make us truly competitive was to shake things up a bit," he told the BBC last year.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Radio Times, Reid admitted that her first reaction to his hiring was "Arghhh!" and that sharing the sofa with him was akin to "sitting next to a hedgehog".<\/p>\n

Reid said she struggled with their relationship up until last year, and admits to frequently coming off air in tears.<\/p>\n

What brought things to a head were the Women's Marches of 2017, over which Morgan was highly critical.<\/p>\n

She says what upset her most were the attacks she received from men who accused her of "enabling his anti-feminist views". <\/p>\n

"The man sitting next to me was spouting off whatever he believes, which I don't agree with... but I had men telling me it was my fault he was saying this. And I was just like, I've had enough of men telling me how I should be a feminist. I've had enough of it."<\/p>\n

Reid told the magazine it was then that she realised it wasn't her responsibility to "pick up the pieces" after Morgan provoked controversy.<\/p>\n

Image caption Reid made it to the final of Strictly Come Dancing in 2013 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She also claims she is "very happy" with her current salary and that she does not know how it compares with her co-host's, said to be around \u00a31.1 million a year.<\/p>\n

Reid previously presented BBC Breakfast and was a runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013.<\/p>\n

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