MY HAVEN – Piers Morgan the Journalist and Chat Show Host, 49, in the ‘Man Cave’ Bar at His Beverly Hills Home
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DAILY MAIL WeeKEND C M Y K PAGE 3 3 6 2 5 4 1 MY HAVEN – PIERS MORGan The journalist and chat show host, 49, in the ‘man cave’ bar at his Beverly Hills home KIM’S roUnd! ELECTRIFYING! THE otHer PierS I’M MARMite HE did it HIS WAY BUlldog SPirit I inherited this bar when I I found this Underwood I was named after Piers My mother had this made I bought this ukulele for This is a vintage Huntley 1bought the house so I turned 2typewriter in a bookshop 3 Courage, the charismatic 4 for me when I took over 5the multi-billionaire 6 & Palmers biscuit tin I it into my ‘man cave’ filled with here – coincidentally it’s the same racing driver and heir to the Larry King’s talk show on CNN in American businessman Warren found at a Santa Monica flea enough fine wine and crates of as the one used by Kevin Spacey’s Courage brewing dynasty, 2010 – the silver lid is embossed Buffett when he appeared on my market. The photograph was Jack Daniel’s to keep even character Frank Underwood in because my mother liked the with the title of my show, Piers old CNN show because I knew he taken during World War II and I Johnny Depp happy. Most men House Of Cards to write the name, and this is a rare first Morgan Live. Mum knows I love could play it – then persuaded love Churchill’s demeanour in it: I know would happily have Kim fall-on-his-sword letter to the edition of a book about him. Marmite, but she also accepts him to sing My Way on air with scowling, defiant, belligerent. Kardashian in their cave. She President that, ironically, saved He was renowned for being a that not everyone shares the it. It was poignant to hear such a I keep Montecristo No.2 cigars gave me this cardboard cut-out of him from the chop. I used a brilliantly talented but often unconditional love she has for great man, nearing the end of in it. On the wall to my left I herself after a TV interview we typewriter for my first shifts in wild and erratic driver both on her eldest son! So this pokes fun his life – he’s 84 – crooning have a series of framed original did, and scrawled, ‘Piers, Thanks Fleet Street in the 80s before and off the circuit. Tragically, he at my image, akin to Marmite’s about having to face the final San Francisco Chronicle front for taking it easy on us’ across computers took over. There was was killed in a crash at the Dutch ‘You either love it or hate it’ curtain. He signed the ukulele, pages reporting the Battle of it. The cut-out is 5ft 3in tall, something electrifying about Grand Prix in 1970 when he was slogan. My family all subscribe ‘To Piers, a great partner, best Britain. I like to sit beneath them which is both Kim’s exact height the way they clattered in a busy just 28. I know some of his family to my grandmother’s maxim: wishes, Warren.’ Of course, if with a whisky and a cigar, – and the approximate width newsroom, and this will always and they still talk about him with ‘One day you’re cock of the walk, we ever had been partners I’d be summoning the Churchillian of her legendary derriere! remind me of those first steps. awe and a twinkle in their eyes. the next a feather duster.’ worth about £25bn! spirit when things get tough. As told to Rob McGibbon. A new series of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories airs on ITV in spring. look 4734 X E WHO’S Y, R Y, It’s Holly Willoughby’s ett birthday this week, S, G E but how well has she aged compared RRY J HOLM A Steven Gerrard Flavia Cacace David Gandy Sophie Winkleman with her peers? Holly Willoughby Macaulay Culkin HS: B ap OGR T HO I DO Queen Victoria married Prince Albert 175 years ago on Tuesday – the first reigning Queen of England to marry since 1554 P weekend 3 7 FebRuaRY National.