The axe falls on Piers Morgan

The former Daily Mirror editor is the latest victim of America's cut-throat chat-show scene.

It's safe to say that Piers Morgan is someone many people love to hate. After he criticised America's gun laws on his talk show, more than 100,000 Americans signed a petition on the White House website to have him deported.

Over 1,000 of his former countrymen also signed a counter petition declaring that he should stay in America not out of sympathy, but because "we washed our hands of him a long time ago". Now it looks like the former group have got their wish: CNN has cancelled Piers Morgan Live.

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