PIERS Morgan slammed Steve Coogan today after The Sun revealed the Alan Partridge star is furloughing his house staff. The journalist blasted the comic as he left the taxpayer to stump up 80 per cent of the gardener and housekeeper's wages at his £4million country mansion.
Coogan claimed in a statement to The Sun said: “This non-story has more to do with my legal actions against the publishers of The Sun and campaign for press reform than anything else.” Furious Piers, 55, pounced on the wealthy comic on the ITV breakfast show today as he branded him "worse than Victoria Beckham".