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Morgan and Reid have been co-presenting on ITV since 2015
Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid has revealed she feels she wages "a constant battle for airtime" with her outspoken co-host Piers Morgan.
"Sometimes I open my mouth to ask a question and hear Piers's voice come out," she informed the Radio Times.
"You can't help but go into battle with him every morning," continued Reid, who give up the BBC for ITV in 2014.
Morgan and Reid have proved a profitable partnership for ITV, however its morning present nonetheless trails behind BBC Breakfast.
BBC One's breakfast programme has an common day by day viewers of 1.5 million, round twice the viewers who tune into its industrial rival.
Former tabloid editor Morgan joined Good Morning Britain in 2015 with the said intention of creating the present "unpredictable, provocative [and] lively".
"I just took a view that the way to make us truly competitive was to shake things up a bit," he informed the BBC final 12 months.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Reid admitted that her first response to his hiring was "Arghhh!" and that sharing the couch with him was akin to "sitting next to a hedgehog".
Reid stated she struggled with their relationship up till final 12 months, and admits to ceaselessly coming off air in tears.
What introduced issues to a head have been the Women's Marches of 2017, over which Morgan was extremely vital.
She says what upset her most have been the assaults she acquired from males who accused her of "enabling his anti-feminist views".
"The man sitting next to me was spouting off whatever he believes, which I don't agree with... but I had men telling me it was my fault he was saying this. And I was just like, I've had enough of men telling me how I should be a feminist. I've had enough of it."
Reid informed the journal it was then that she realised it wasn't her accountability to "pick up the pieces" after Morgan provoked controversy.
She additionally claims she is "very happy" with her present wage and that she doesn't know the way it compares with her co-host's, stated to be round £1.1 million a 12 months.
Reid beforehand offered BBC Breakfast and was a runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013.