Piers Morgan enjoys a pint of Harvey’s live on Good Morning Britain
and live on Freeview channel 276
The Good Morning Britain presenter sipped on the beer on Wednesday morning (July 1), in front of his teetotal co-host Susanna Reid and joked that he now found her ‘dull’ since she quit drinking almost two years ago.
The 55-year-old later shared pictures of himself with the tipple to his 7.6million followers on Twitter and said: “BOOM! First pint of Harvey’s in 4 months! Who cares, it’s only 6.42am... and I’ve got 2 more hours of live TV.”
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Hide AdHe praised the local brewery live on TV, telling his viewers: “Look at that. I’ve got to say it’s a beautiful brewery. It’s a fantastic drop.”
Harvey’s Brewery said Piers, who lives in Newick, has always been a fan of the beer and the brewery has benefitted from his support on social media.
Hamish Elder, executive chairman, said: “Piers lives nearby and when we found out he hadn’t had a pint of Harvey’s for four months we arranged for a mini keg to be delivered to the studio.
“It was a light hearted opportunity for Piers to have a beer. And it was not just his own pint, but his own beer, with a ‘Piers Beer’ pump clip.
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Hide Ad“We welcome his support. I have never met Piers, but I look forward to welcoming him at the brewery sometime in the future – when it is appropriate.”
Mr Elder said the coronavirus pandemic has been a challenging time for the brewery, but it was keen to start trading again.
“It has required a great deal of patience and it has been a worrying time through lockdown,” he commented.
“We couldn’t have done it without the government furlough scheme – we had to furlough all of our staff in pubs of course.”
He added: “It is going to be a difficult few weeks getting back to the new normal – whatever that is!”