Piers Morgan will not be part of America’s Got Talent when the show returns next season. The former tabloid editor and Britain's Got Talent judge stated that he was leaving the show to focus on his work for CNN. He announced the news, as is the fashion now, through a tweet to his 1.4 million followers.
“I’m leaving America’s Got Talent after 6 wonderful years. Turned out that juggling’s harder than it looks, so I’m going to focus on CNN.” He also reiterated his plans on his cable show where he cracked that he was now available to host the 2012 Academy Awards.
“I’ve loved every single second,” Morgan said of America’s Got Talent. “I’m going to focus on what will be a huge year here at CNN with the upcoming election.”
The news comes just over a year after he replaced Larry King (Larry King Live) in the hot-seat on CNN’s prestigious primetime news slot with his own eponymously-titled show.
“It’s been a weird experience to go from interviewing [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu in Jerusalem and then coming back and doing a couple days of auditions,” Morgan told The Hollywood reporter last spring before adding, “But I like it.”
But that juggling act just became too difficult to sustain.
