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Piers Morgan has reignited the debate over a female James Bond once again, accusing women of ‘stealing’ the character.

Yes, seriously.

Jane Seymour has waded into the debate over the 007 spy, explaining it was ‘time’ for a woman to step into Daniel Craig’s shoes after he announced No Time To Die would be his last film.

But the Good Morning Britain host is having absolutely none of it.

During the latest instalment of the show, the 54-year-old fumed: ‘Jane Seymour, famous Bond girl, wants a female Bond. We’ve had this debate before…’

Yes, we definitely, definitely have.

‘I love Jane Seymour, absolutely think she’s wonderful, but this is so wrong,’ he continued. ‘We don’t need a female James Bond, because his name is James Bond.

Piers Morgan reignites James Bond woman debate
Piers Morgan has no time for a female James Bond (Picture: ITV)

‘If you want to have your own spy hero, go and create one. Write one. Go and write one yourself. Jane Seymour can go and write one.’


When Susanna Reid and Charlotte Hawkins compared the character to Doctor Who, explaining that a woman has been cast as the Doctor, he fumed: ‘Because Doctor Who, as the name suggests, could be anything. Doctor who.

‘James Bond is a male name. Name me one other woman called James. There aren’t any. There are no women called James.’

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ daughter, James, might beg to differ there, hun.

‘It’s not the name that’s important though, it’s the role, 007,’ Susanna explained, to which the presenter raged: ‘Make it 004 and have a woman called Jeanetta, but don’t steal our James Bond.’

Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour insisted it’s ‘time’ for a woman to take over from 007 (Picture: ITV)

Piers’ comments come after Jane suggested it was finally time for a woman to take over the infamous role, after Lashana Lynch was tipped for to be cast as the spy.

Speaking about the franchise, the Mirror states she suggested: ‘More power to the women… why not? It’s time.

‘[Director] Barbara Broccoli has steered this ship quite brilliantly, in my opinion.

‘I remember, when I did Live And Let Die, Roger Moore joined after Sean Connery and everyone said that can never happen.’

While Pierce Brosnan – who starred as Bond in four films – previously agreed, insisting: ‘We’ve watched the guys do it for 40 years. Get out of the way, guys, and put a woman up there.

Lashana Lynch has been tipped for James Bond role
Lashana Lynch has been tipped for the role (Picture: Getty)

‘I think it would be exciting.’


However, Joanna Lumley has sided with Piers Morgan, telling that Bond should always be played by a male actor as this is the way author Ian Fleming wrote the character.

‘He took very special pains to describe James Bond, who was a man, and this was written in the early 50s, who was a British man of a certain height and build and a rather cruel face, a lean build,’ she said.

‘It seems odd to me you’d make that a woman.

‘By all means write another character who works for MI6, write a new one but don’t tag onto this lazy business of pretending it’s James Bond.

‘Make a different one,’ she continued. ‘It would have to be 008 or somebody else, and make it a woman if you have to.

‘Remember James Bond is a character written by a real writer. You wouldn’t make Mr Pickwick into a 23-year-old girl…’

Good Morning Britain continues on weekdays, at 6am, on ITV.

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