Piers Morgan reacts to Matt Hancock's fake 'get well' reply after 'celebrating' GMB exit
03.03.2023 - 16:55
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Matt Hancock joked he wanted to "celebrate" Piers Morgan's departure from Good Morning Britain. The disgraced MP who was ousted from his position as Health Secretary and broke his own lockdown rules during the height of the Covid pandemic recently had a series of WhatsApp messages leaked. In another leaked message, Matt appeared to have discussed faking a "get well soon" message to Piers after he caught Covid before his exit from GMB.
In a screenshot shared by Politics UK, the messages were shared between ministers on May 3 2020. At the time, Piers tweeted: "UPDATE: On medical advice, and out of an abundance of caution for a mild symptom that arose in the past 48hrs, I've had a test for Covid-19 and so won't be working on GMB until I get the result back, which should be tomorrow. "On May 4, Matt replied: "Sorry to see @PiersMorgan has symptoms of coronavirus.
If you test positive, I sincerely hope it's mild. Get well soon. "READ MORE: Ken Bruce 'lingering' at BBC despite exit is 'surprising' - Simon MayoIn the leaked messages, the former health secretary and his ministers discussed a possible reply to Piers' tweet.
Matt's message read: "Tempting as it is I probably shouldn't comment on this, but a few colleagues pointing out kindly that he [Piers] can only have a test because of the ramp up of testing in the past week would be good. "His adviser said the minister "should tweet him best wishes" and "be really classy". Taking to Twitter on Thursday, Piers, 57, shared a screenshot as he reacted to the leaked messages.
In view of his 8. 4 million followers, the Uncensored host penned: "Lovely people. .
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