Piers Morgan has hit out at chat show hosts Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton and Alan Carr saying that they “wouldn’t know a good journalistic question if it bit them on their backsides”.

Morgan said that Norton is “too camp, bitchy and ‘showbizzy’ for my taste”, and named him the man with the most irritating voice, apart from Alan Carr.

Piers was interviewing himself for the March edition of GQ magazine and he added that Jonathan Ross should have been sacked over his recent prank calls to Andrew Sachs.

“I am a journalist who tries to conduct entertaining interviews,” he said. “They – and I include Ross in this – are entertainers, who wouldn’t know a good journalistic question if it bit them on their backsides. But we both have our place in the market.”