Piers Morgan Leaving America's Got Talent
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America's Got Talent will have to mount a very special talent search: for a new judge.
After five years, Piers Morgan is leaving the hit NBC reality competition, he announced on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Tonight.
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It's that CNN talk show (which replaced the departed Larry King Live) that prompted Morgan to vacate the judges' table he shares with Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne.
The 46-year-old British journalist explained that he needs to focus his attentions on his evening talk show -- particularly with election season around the corner.
The most recent season of Talent wrapped in September.
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Piers Morgan is the only judge looking for high quality acts, Howie Mandel chooses weird acts that are gross or one shot wonders. Morgan's talk show is really good; I'm glad he's sticking with it.
Good! The show is called "America's Got Talent", not "Britain's Got A$$holes"!
I really like Piers and am sorry to see him leave. I love Simon, and I think that Piers is a lot like Simon :) I wish him luck in his talk show that he is doing so well in now. I know that he really takes any job that he has to heart.
I like Piers and am sorry to see him leave. I think people like him and Simon make the programs more interesting. I don't believe is being unkind to contestants but at the same time, don't think the Paula types keep the programs interesting (nothing against Paula).
This makes me so happy I could squeal!! Piers has gotten exceptionally rude and offensive on that show. My husband and I love the show, and all last season we kept saying that Piers has just gotten mean for the sake of mean. At least when Simon Cowell is mean, it's for a good reason. This guy's just a jerk.