It seems Piers Morgan’s social media was hacked on Monday (Dec. 26) to take goal at Ed Sheeran, Queen Elizabeth II and extra.
In a sequence of since-deleted tweets, the hackers referred to the “Shivers” crooner as a “ginger f—er” and blasted the late monarch by tweeting, “f–ok the queen” whereas altering Morgan’s profile pic to a photograph of himself laughing with Her Royal Majesty. One other public determine who got here underneath assault was British-American boxer Andrew Tate after the hacked account erroneously claimed he had been killed in Dubai.
“In case you had been questioning, @piersmorgan has been hacked,” the official account for Morgan’s discuss present, Piers Morgan Uncensored, tweeted the next day. “Any probability of getting him again, @elonmusk?”
As of press time, Morgan’s account had been cleaned of many of the abusive tweets apart from a Bitcoin app rip-off and a blurry photograph of an unnamed younger man captioned with extra abusive language.
For his half, Sheeran was seemingly nonplussed by the controversy, significantly contemplating he doesn’t use Twitter and leaves the app within the arms of his official staff as “Ed Sheeran HQ.”
As a substitute, the singer had lots to rejoice as of late. Earlier this month, Billboard reported that Sheeran bought extra tickets than every other music act in 2022 due to the huge success of his ongoing Arithmetic Tour. (Over 60 dates throughout Europe, he moved a grand complete of three million tickets.) The trek will head stateside with its big, rotating stage on Might 6 beginning at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Try Morgan’s plea to get his Twitter account again beneath.