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Piers Morgan the new Shobhaa De: Slams India’s Olympic celebration, gets trolled
MUMBAI: Shobhaa De did it midway through the Rio Olympics. Now, British journalist and TV show host Piers Morgan has done it.
MUMBAI: Shobhaa De did it midway through the Rio Olympics. Now, British journalist and TV show host Piers Morgan has done it.
Morgan took to Twitter to call India’s celebration of two Olympic medals exaggerated. He tweeted: “Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that?”
Morgan was immediately trolled by angry Indians, among them author (and a man also known to court Twitter controversy) Chetan Bhagat, and the ever-outspoken columnist, author, socialite Suhel Seth.
Bhagat quoted Morgan’s tweet to say, “We honor achievers Peirs. Top 3 in the world,despite 3rd world sports facilities isn’t loser. It is freaking amazing!”
Morgan rallied back, using his misspelt name, to say “Noted, Chatan.”
Bhagat, obviously, missed the joke, and tweeted back to correct him.
Bollywood came up. As did England’s cricket rankings.
One user tweeted: “Do you think Piers is doing this for a Bollywood role?”
Another pointed out England’s cricket ranking.
Instead of backing down, though, Morgan kept rallying back. He pretty much reiterated his first tweet, by saying, “1,200,000,000 people and not a single Gold medal at the Olympics? Come on India, this is shameful. Put the bunting away & get training.”
Stand-up comedian Karan Talwar was one of the few to tweet in his favour: “Troll him all you want but @piersmorgan is right. The excessive celebration doesn’t quite match the result.”
