What is Andrew Pierce?
[[File:Andrew Pierce, journalist.jpg|right|220px]] '''Andrew Pierce''' (born '''Patrick Connolly'''; March 1961) is a British [[journalist]], editor, author, [[broadcaster]] and political commentator. ==Early life== Pierce was born in [[Bristol]] to an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Roman Catholic]] mother and an unknown father. He spent the first two years of his life at [[Nazareth House]], a Catholic orphanage in [[Cheltenham]]. He was [[Adoption|adopted]] by a family from [[Swindon]] and brought up on council property there. His adoptive father worked on the assembly line at [[British Leyland]], a former [[State-owned enterprise|state-owned]] car factory. ==Education== Pierce was educated at St Joseph's Roman Catholic School, now known as [[St Joseph's Catholic College]], a state comprehensive school in [[Swindon]] and later on skipped college. ==Works== He is currently Senior News Reviewing Officer for [[ITV]] breakfast programmes ''[[Good Morning Britain]]'', ''[[Lorraine (TV programme)|Lorraine]]'' and the [[TalkTV (British TV channel)|TalkTV]] night-time programme ''[[Piers Morgan Uncensored]]''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierce, Andrew}} [[Category:1961 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:English journalists]] [[Category:British editors]] [[Category:Political commentators]] [[Category:Writers from Wiltshire]] {{bio-stub}}