Daniel ThomasAug 4, 2026 – 12.27pmFor Piers Morgan, there is one obvious benefit of being the UK’s most newly minted millionaire media mogul: “I can’t get cancelled because I’m not going to cancel myself!” the veteran journalist and presenter laughs.After a career pushing at the edges of the newspaper and broadcast industry — he thinks he was only really fired once “properly” — Morgan has found his natural home on YouTube, where his often rambunctious Uncensored chat show has more than 4 million followers.Financial TimesSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Inside the rise of newly minted mogul Piers Morgan
The former newspaper editor is set on turning his “Uncensored” show into an online media empire, with backing from a Murdoch.






