For a brief moment, Alex Beresford was everywhere. Not because the ITV weatherman was beaming into the nation’s living rooms every morning. But because he suddenly found himself embroiled in an international controversy for having had the temerity, while live on air, to take Piers Morgan to task over his treatment of Meghan Markle.
This fall-out, over Morgan saying he didn’t believe that Markle was being truthful when she said she had felt suicidal, led to the former <em>Good Morning Britain</em> anchor storming off the set in a petulant huff. It’s a moment that made headlines from London to LA, and inadvertently raised Beresford’s profile higher than ever.
