Yahoo News Piers slams Dancing on Ice's Jason Gardiner for “body shaming” Gemma Collins during their on-air row
It’s not often Piers Morgan defends people, especially someone like Gemma Collins.
But the Good Morning Britain host declared he was firmly on "Team Collins" following her row with Dancing on Ice judge Jason Gardiner.
Watching back the clip where the TOWIE star slammed Jason and shouted "Don't sell stories on me" and "Boring!" at him, Piers responded: “During the competition, trashing her the way he did, I think was completely unprofessional.
"You shouldn’t be abusive to people you’ve asked to take part in your show. On Britain’s Got Talent, we had all sorts of contestants but if you invite people to take part in your show and compete, don’t go to national papers during the competition and bury them the way that he did. And then when you get challenged on it, don’t look all shell-shocked and outraged. The audience were on her side."
After referring to Jason branding Gemma "lazy" in an interview, Piers added: “I admire her, already she’s doing that better than I could do.
"All that stuff about 'we’re not going to see big lifts', what he means is, you’re overweight is that he’s saying to her.
"He’s body shaming her, he’s abusing her. I don’t know her, I’ve met her a couple of times and she strikes me as an entertaining reality star, but she’s giving it everything she’s got.
"I admire the attempt to try and be better than she clearly is and for Jason Gardiner to be burying her in the press in the week I think it completely wrong."
After accusing Gemma of being more "Anna Nicole-Smith" than "Marilyn Monroe" during her Sunday night performance, The GC took her opportunity to bite back to Jason.
"Can I just say one thing?" she said. "Maybe if you didn’t sell stories on me I wouldn’t have been so upset last week, so take that.
"Do not sell stories on me. Move on. Boring."
In response, Jason said he "didn't have to sell a story" and called Gemma a "brat", as Phillip Schofield stepped in to cool things down.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV. Dancing on Ice continues next Sunday (January 27) from 6pm on ITV.
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