Marlon Samuels Celebrates Piers Morgan’s Fall From Grace After Attack On Meghan Markle
Four months after he was castigated by Piers Morgan, for his verbal onslaught on English cricketer, Ben Stokes, retired West Indies batting superstar now Dancehall deejay Marlon Samuels, is having the last laugh as he celebrates the former television host’s downfall.
Morgan has been under fire over the last few days after storming off the set of Good Morning Britain on Monday and later resigned, after he was confronted by his co-host Alex Beresford, over his verbal attacks on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, following their blockbuster interview with Oprah Winfrey the day before.
On Monday’s edition of “Good Morning Britain,” Morgan questioned whether the Duchess was being truthful about having suicidal thoughts, while pregnant with her son Archie and that the royal family had told her she couldn’t seek help because “it wouldn’t be good for the institution.”
On Thursday Samuels, still seething from Morgan’s November 2020 comments, posted a video clip of the exchange between Morgan and Beresford on his Instagram page, where he praised the black co-host for addressing Morgan’s behavior frontally.
“Sextillion nothing but respect for this man to tell him the truth to his face plenty could not do it. Respect to you my black brother we are going to die being honest,” Samuels said before adding: “Think everyone is like him sheep.”
“Coward where you running to? Wait till Harry see you. One box to you face. Look at the walk of shame,” Samuels also superimposed jeeringly on the video.
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In early November last year, Samuels had taken to the studio to voice a track titled Worst Enemy, aimed at dissing Piers Morgan and his arch-rivals, England’s Ben Stokes and Australian Shane Warne.
Samuels, who is known for songs such as Top Gyallis, Spoon Head and Sextillionaire, had made Morgan a target of his song after the journalist said that he had shamefully displayed “absolutely disgraceful racist abuse” and that “if a white player said this to a black player he would be banned for life”, after Samuels declared that, among other things, he was genetically superior to Ben Stokes.
Marlon’s comment about being superior, was made after Stokes said in an October interview that he would not wish two weeks of COVID quarantine on anyone, not even his “worst enemy Marlon Samuels”.
An enraged Samuels had taken to Instagram raining insults on Stokes, which made headlines across the cricketing world.
“No white boy could diss me in the sports and no get back diss look at this b__tch still thinking about me give me 14 days with you wife turn her into Jamaican in 14 seconds mate none of yall knows me that simple means it’s my f__ing superior skin tone yall hate f__k you,” were his now-infamous words.
Following Morgan’s tweet, Samuels, who goes by the Dancehall moniker “Icon”, struck out on Instagram declaring: “Piers Morgan. How you reach ina this? I can’t remember seeing you around the game of cricket. That’s not how you speak to a legend. Yu need to go take a picture at Lords with my number 7 jersey…”
Initially, the bad blood between Stokes and Samuels had begun in April 2015, when the Kingston College old boy mockingly saluted Stokes off the field during a test match in Grenada.
The vendetta continued at the World T-20 final in Kolkata in 2016 when the West Indies beat England, and Samuels, who hit 85 not out to win the Man of the Match award, made jeering comments about Stokes in a post-game interview.
Later that year Stokes published his autobiography Firestarter: Me, Cricket, and The Heat of the Moment, in which he said the Jamaican lacked manners, was disrespectful of the game, and that: “I do not like him one bit”.
In November’s drama, Samuels had also taken aim at his other detractor, Warne, who had also criticized him for his statements about Stokes’ wife.
“ICC cricketing world Ben b__tch Stokes Shane b__tch Warne and a few b__tch West Indians cricketers … f__k with my army bigger and we richer,” Samuels posted.
Samuels is well-known for his protracted social media feuds and bantering with other Dancehall artists, including an infamous online beef with selector Foota Hype in 2018, which started after he claimed that the Calabar High School old boy was “carrying feelings” over his appearance in his ex-girlfriend Ishawna’s Insta Boy music video.
He has also had verbal spats with Mr. Vegas, and conflicts with his ex Yanique ‘Curvy Diva’ in 2018, an upcoming singer Ikon and Devin di Dakta’s manager Shelly-Ann Curran in 2019 over the artist’s New Flame single after Devin poked fun at him with lyrics saying: “nuh matter how me love di gyal dem, none cyah mad me cuz me nuh Marlon Samuels’, in reference to the rift between the batsman and the Curvy Diva.
Marlon had blamed Curran for allowing Devin to insert his name in the song and said she should “pick a war wid a person weh above you”