Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan's 'arranged marriage'

26 June 2018

Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan's 'Good Morning Britain' partnership is like an "arranged marriage without the good bits".

Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan

The presenting pair have co-hosted the morning show for two-and-a-half years, despite Susanna joking she didn't want to work with the 53-year-old journalist after teaming up with him on 'GMB' for an initial one-week experiment.

Speaking on ITV's 'Lorraine', Piers said: "It's like being in an arranged marriage. We didn't really know each other and we got put together for one week of experiment."

Susanna interjected: "And after that I said, 'No thanks.' "

Piers continued: "She said, 'Do not put him anywhere near me again.' Then two-and-a-half years later ... it's like an arranged marriage without the good bits."

The pair are set to host a special one-off 'Good Evening Britain' show on Thursday night (28.06.18) after England's World Cup clash with Belgium, and Susanna is concerned about how "psychopath" Piers might act after a couple of drinks.

She said: "Imagine ... before 9am he's a psychopath. What is he going to be after nine o'clock in the evening after a beer or two?"

Earlier in the morning (26.06.18) on 'GMB', Piers went on a rant about beating rival show 'BBC Breakfast' in the ratings, admitting he wants to "destroy" the news programme.

He said: "I think it's important to want to win, to look at BBC Breakfast and think, 'I want to destroy them, I want to dismantle them, I want to wreck them.

"'I want to tear into their ratings like a vulture when it descends on a rotting carcass and starts to pull its innards out and then eat them raw.' I just imagine it's Dan Walker's innards."

Susanna told him: "You are so obsessed with him, let it go. I think you're some sort of psychopath."

He added: "Maybe I am a psychopath but I want to win."

But she replied: "I've never worked with anyone quite as nightmarish as you."