Thank u, next.

That was Ariana Grande’s brilliant response to Piers Morgan, who took it upon himself to slut shame the four women of Little Mix yesterday. Morgan’s main issue was the video clip for the band’s single Strip, which featured Jesy Nelson, Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock completely naked, their bodies painted with the words most frequently used as slurs against them, like ‘ugly’, ‘talentless’, ‘slutty’, ‘bossy’ and ‘stupid’.

It was a powerful video, which featured dozens of other female activists of all shapes, sizes and races, dancing alongside the singers in a glorious celebration of body diversity.

But Morgan didn’t like it. The Good Morning Britain host called the whole thing a desperate ploy “to sell albums”.

“What is empowering about this?” Morgan spluttered on his morning show, clearly unable to recognise that women might find something empowering that he, a man, does not. “Get your kit off, airbrush yourself to within an inch of your lives… it’s nonsense. It’s just stripping off to sell records. It’s actually using sex and sexuality to sell records. That’s it. There’s nothing else to this.”

Ariana Grande brilliantly defends Little Mix from Piers Morgan’s “slut-shaming”