The president of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, resigned from his position on Sunday after three weeks of controversy over the non-consensual kiss to Jenni Hermoso and for touching his genitals in the box of authorities during the celebration of the world title won by the women's team.
Rubiales announced his resignation in a statement on Twitter (now program Uncensored, from Talk TV.
In fact, the communicator himself published, ten minutes earlier, on his X account a fragment of the interview where Rubiales made the news official. "Luis Rubiales flew to London today for a two-hour interview with me in which he announced his resignation," Morgan wrote. He added: "It's a raw, powerful and emotional conversation about THAT kiss and crotch grab that has made him the most infamous man in the world."
At this time, there are several questions in the air: Why has Rubiales chosen to fly to London to reveal the world exclusive to this journalist? Who is Piers Morgan and why does he have so much media relevance?
Piers Morgan is a controversial journalist with a long career in the media, where he has worked as a presenter of reality shows (Britain's Got Talent) or as the youngest editor -only 29 years old- for the News of the World. In addition, he has worked for tabloids such as The Sun, where he wrote the Bizarre column, or for The Daily Mirror.
Morgan reaps great sports exclusives behind him. Before Rubiales, he interviewed Cristiano Ronaldo, prior to the World Cup in Qatar, when the Portuguese announced on his program that he was ending his second stage at Manchester United. That interview earned her the 'Exclusive of the Year' award at the 2023 British Sports Journalism Awards gala.
Although only a few minutes of the interview between Rubiales and Morgan are known, as it will be published in full this week, the choice of the British journalist has generated great controversy among public opinion.
The truth is that the journalist has been at the center of controversy on several occasions for his unapologetic machismo through social networks. Without going any further, on March 8, 2022, he published an openly misogynistic tweet that read: "Is Women's Day over yet? I'm hungry!"
Her dispute against feminism is constant. In 2018, she openly criticized a Little Mix advertising campaign that featured naked models with their bodies covered in insults that exemplified what they have had to hear for years. Singers of the stature of Ariana Grande decided to stand up to the journalist: “I hope the day comes when you realize that there are other ways to be relevant without having to criticize young, beautiful and successful women for anything they do. I think it will be a wonderful thing for you and for your career – or for what is left of it.”
In addition to these controversies, Morgan criticized women who decide not to shave on a program during his time as presenter of the morning show 'Good Morning Britain', on the ITV network in the United Kingdom. During the broadcast, several images of women, such as Madonna or Lady Gaga, sporting body hair were shown, to which the presenter did not hesitate to describe them as "disgusting." "Men don't like women with a lot of body hair," he said, criticizing them as "lazy" for not waxing.
