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Once a place to escape and talk to your crush on AIM or roast your friends with meatspin.com, the internet has transitioned from a lawless oasis to a diary documenting all your mistakes, thanks to social media. Even the most godly human would have reservations about someone doing a deep dive into his social media accounts/internet history. And when you’re a celebrity whose reputation is built on constantly taking the moral high ground, you best believe you’re mistakes are going to come back to bite you in the ass.
That’s exactly what happened to British journalist and TV personality, Piers Morgan. Following the reported “gun shots” in Oxford Circus on Friday night, English singer Olly Murs and Piers Morgan went toe-to-toe on the world wide web. The alleged gunfire turned out to be a false alarm, but Murs, who was in a nearby store when the explosion sounds occurred, live tweeted his experience.
Taking to his 7.8 million Twitter followers, he originally wrote: ‘Fuckk everyone get out of @selfridges now gun shots!! I’m inside.’
Another tweet read: “Really not sure what’s happened! I’m in the back office… but people screaming and running towards exits!”
Piers Morgan eventually tweeted at Murs telling him to “stop tweeting,” before things escalated.
Listen piers! I was shopping and then all of sudden the whole place went mad, I mean crazy people running & screaming towards exits. We found a small office to hide to which loads of staff and people were saying there was shots fired. If you was there you’d have understood mate. https://t.co/mnZBTSLod4
— Olly Murs (@ollymurs) November 24, 2017
No. You listen, Olly. When you have millions of followers be very careful what you tweet. There were no shots, in fact nothing happened at all. So you stirred extra needless panic by tweeting false information. https://t.co/6L3xTBlwuA
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 24, 2017
No you listen Piers.. your comments are unfair mate. It’s Easy to say now it was nothing but in a state of shock and panic I was trying to make people aware of what was happening. Which I was lend to believe by staff and customers that someone was shooting. https://t.co/qFJRfOpqJk
— Olly Murs (@ollymurs) November 24, 2017
James Blunt, confirmed wiseass and excellent social media follow, decided to end the petty feud once and for all. Blunt called out Morgan’s hypocrisy by digging into some old wounds.
From the man who published fake Iraqi torture pictures. LOL. https://t.co/6VoVd6lZ2q
— James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) November 25, 2017
Blunt is referring to the pictures published by The Mirror back in 2004 that said to show the violation of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers. The pictures were determined to be fakes and Piers, who was editor of The Mirror at the time, lost his job over it.
Morgan decided to hit back at Blunt with the lamest comeback in comeback history.
From the man who really is a James Blunt. LOL. https://t.co/f8ZRNOw7QX
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 25, 2017
Boom roasted, James. Boom roasted.
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P.S. This has been a tough day for Piers. He was also caught mixing it up with a fake celebrity page.
[h/t NME]