John Cleese calls Piers Morgan ‘lazy’ and ‘sloppy’ as he weighs in on Hugh Grant row Morgan and Grant have been engaged in a war of words over Rupert Murdoch.
John Cleese has weighed in on a row between Piers Morgan and Hugh Grant over Rupert Murdoch, with the Fawlty Towers star calling Morgan “lazy” and “sloppy”.
Heretic star Grant, 64, and broadcaster Morgan, 59, have been engaged in a spat on X/Twitter this week after the government ruled out a reopening of the Leveson Inquiry, which Grant has been leading calls for.
Morgan then took to X to call Grant a “hypocrite”, claiming the actor had taken “many millions of pounds” from Murdoch to make films for him.
Hours later, Morgan replied: “UPDATE: Your movie Florence Foster Jenkins was distributed by Murdoch-owned (at the time) 20th Century Fox in the UK.
