has launched yet another attack on the ‘talentless’ , after her decision to wear one of ’s iconic dresses to the .
At Monday’s high-fashion event, , which she wore to sing happy birthday to President John F Kennedy in 1962, and reportedly struggled to ‘do up’ over her internet-breaking bottom.
In addition, the 41-year-old reality star and Skims billionaire mogul now owns more memorabilia from the tragic Hollywood-era star, after she was by the same company that loaned her the dress: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum.
In response to this ‘fetishisation’ of the tragic star, who was a self-proclaimed ‘waif’, and who died at 36 in an apparent suicide from a barbiturates overdose following a string of failed marriages and broken relationships, Piers claimed that the behaviour was ‘creepy and wrong’.
Taking to Twitter, he said: ‘Marilyn will be turning in her grave at this talentless wastrel hijacking & tarnishing her brand.’
Piers has had a long-running feud with Kim, which started in 2016 when the television host called out the reality star for her sex tape.
In 2019, he again ripped into the mogul, calling her a ‘’ after she was laughed off the stage at the Grammy’s, and in 2020, when she became a billionaire, he again repeated the ‘talentless’ jibe.
At the time, he didn’t hold back in his criticism, tweeting: ‘Says the woman who built her whole career off a sex tape. ?’
In March, he blasted the ‘entitled imbeciles’ Pete Davidson and Kim, during the ongoing Russia Ukraine war.
At the time, the , her ex-husband Kanye and boyfriend Pete for grabbing headlines amid the war.
Writing in a column for , he said: ‘At the same time as these three supremely rich, famous, entitled imbeciles are trading stupid insults, Ukraine is exploding with horrifying scenes of murder and mayhem.’
And Piers isn’t the only person to criticise Kim for her sartorial decision for the annual event.
actress ripped into for admitting to drastically cutting her diet in order to fit into her dress, and called for fans to ‘stop supporting these stupid, harmful celebrities’.
Speaking to Vogue on the red carpet, the Skims founder revealed she in order to slim down to Monroe’s size.
Lili, 25, appeared to address Kim’s comments in her Instagram stories, later writing: ‘To walk on a red carpet and do an interview where you say how starving you are … because you haven’t eaten carbs in the last month… all to fit in a f*****g dress?
‘So wrong. So f***** on 100s of levels.’
‘To openly admit to starving yourself for the sake of the Met Gala. When you know very well that millions of young men and women are looking up to you and listening to your every word. The ignorance is other-worldly disgusting.’
Lili then pleaded with her followers to ‘stop supporting these stupid, harmful celebrities whose entire image revolves around their bodies’.
‘I am not generally an angry person but I swear to God, the toxicity of this industry sometimes really gets to me and I have to do my little Instagram-story rants to release my rage,’ she added.
Kim was loaned the famous dress by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum for the evening, and they had an extra surprise in store for her too.
They shared a video of the mother-of-four being gifted a lock of Monroe’s hair, with a Ripley’s staffer telling her the gift is either ‘very cool or very weird’.
Ripley’s added: ‘During @KimKardashian’s Met Gala dress fitting at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! HQ, our team surprised her with a silver box that contained an actual lock of Marilyn’s iconic platinum hair.
‘The Ripley’s team also filled her Met Gala dressing room with a trove of Marilyn Monroe and JFK memorabilia to help inspire her look.’
In the video, Kim can be seen gasping with joy before saying: ‘Oh my god I’m literally going to do some crazy voodoo s**t and channel her!
‘This is so special to me. Thank you so much, this is so cool,’ before adding to boyfriend Pete, 28, who was off-camera: ‘This is sleeping with me every night… sorry babe.’
