Yahoo News Piers Morgan brands Little Mix 'fake' for nude video
Piers Morgan blasted Little Mix for their new video aiming to empower women on Monday’s Good Morning Britain, accusing them of “stripping off to sell albums”.
Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock have released a video for their track ‘Strip’ in which they pose naked with insults that people on social media have said about them written all over their bodies.
But Morgan slammed the group for their video, branding them “fake”.
He said: “If men stripped off like that we’d be arrested, but women do it and it’s empowering.
“They’re stripping off to sell albums, that’s what it’s about. The rest of it is baloney.
“They don’t have any flaws, they’ve been airbrushed to look perfect. They’re fake. There’s not a mark on them. You can’t even see the surgery.”
@GMB I must say as a teenage girl I do not agree with @piersmorgan comment. Body positivity is something we should be so proud of this! Who cares if @LittleMix stripped off to promote body positivity? It’s a good message to not only girls but boys as well about loving their body
— Issy Price (@issy_price) November 19, 2018
@piersmorgan please shut tf up let a woman feel powerful clothed or not but the whole point is little mix are trying to point out no matter what size you should be comfortable in your own skin @GMB I swear why are you still on tv
— Syd💫🌘 (@sydLstinson) November 19, 2018
For the first time ever actually agree with @piersmorgan about @LittleMix #GMB
— Pe2 (@UrN1gh7m4r3) November 19, 2018
GMB viewers also saw more than they would have liked of Morgan in a nude photo in the style of Little Mix’s new video.
Luckily, the picture was just a mocked-up shot, with Morgan’s head photoshopped onto a naked body covered in insulting words often levelled at the news reader.
Little Mix have released an image of themselves covered in the words used by their trolls – so we thought we'd give @PiersMorgan the same treatment.
These are the words we're allowed to put on breakfast telly… 😉 pic.twitter.com/Ws9FYgv2hl
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) November 19, 2018
Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona joined a debate in the Good Morning Britain studio to talk about whether celebrities taking their clothes off really was empowering.
She said: “You can’t gave things like this [enough] awareness. The words and the statement, I have four young girls, I think it’s amazing what they’ve done.”
But Morgan disagreed, also pointing out Kim Kardashian and Emily Ratajkowski as examples of stars who stripped down to underwear or less in videos and social media posts.
He said of one Ratajkowski clip: “How is that empowering to feminists? It’s empowering to her bank balance.”
Katona added that she had felt judged for her past, saying: “In my dark days I received so much hate, I was called a terrible mum, a druggie, my kids should be taken off me, it sent me in a terrible downward spiral.”
Little Mix’s video features women of different body sizes and shapes dancing with them in protest at the online abuse and shaming people experience on social media.
Katona said: “There are going to be so many young girls and boys watching that video, I think it’s a great thing.”
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