In 2000, while Piers Morgan was still married to Marion Shalloe, reports circulated that he was having an affair with another journalist. At the time, David Yelland — the editor of The Sun — claimed to have “explosive” emails between Morgan and Sun writer Marina Hyde that would “destroy” Morgan, per the Mirror. According to the “Piers Morgan Live” host, Yelland was simply using correspondence between him and Hyde as leverage. “They delighted in embarrassing me and in being quite destructive to a friend, and to my personal life,” Morgan told the Press Gazette in 2002. Those allegedly salacious emails were reportedly the cause of Morgan’s first marriage falling apart.
Both Morgan and Hyde denied the affair, but multiple British outlets ran with the rumor. “[P]ossibly because he had left his wife for the Guardian journalist Marina Hyde,” The Guardian wrote about Morgan in 2005. The Spectator’s Sam Leith offered some insight while reviewing a memoir by Morgan. “I know Marina a little, and she has always resolutely denied it to me; I don’t call her a liar,” he wrote.
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Although the rumored affair was never confirmed, Morgan later stated that his divorce from Shalloe was indeed a mess. In 2009, the “Britain’s Got Talent” judge, who was then dating Celia Walden, said he was not in rush to get married again. “The divorce was a pretty horrendous experience — all divorces are deeply unpleasant,” Morgan told the Daily Mail. He has also opened up about his and Shalloe’s post-divorce relationship.
