My reduced to a gibbering wreck! star story bulldog spirit This house has been my London home since 2009. I bought this original Sir Winston Churchill is 1 I live here with my wife Celia and our five-year-old 2 American flag for £5,000 3 the greatest Briton, and daughter Elise when we’re not gallivanting in America. in a London art fair without quite possibly the greatest Aside from my four children, these Arsenal shirts worn realising its significance. In fact, human being, to ever bestride and signed by my all-time football heroes Thierry Henry it’s highly unusual because it planet earth. I found this and are my most treasured possessions. features 34 stars, which only Toby Jug of him in Portobello Haven If you don’t understand how football has the power to appeared on the flag for two market and I love his typically reduce grown men to gibbering wrecks, then you’re not years from 1861 to 1863 during uncompromising expression. piers morgan a real fan. Thierry’s inscription reads: ‘To Piers, a true the Civil War when there were He was a man with a gargantuan Gooner, from Thierry, a Gooner for life.’ He quit to join only 34 states, and under just appetite for many of the things The Good Morning Britain host, 52, Barcelona a few months later and it broke my heart. one president – Abraham I love: strident journalism, Lincoln. America’s been very vigorous debate, Champagne, in his study at his five-bedroom good to me and when they’re cigars, brandy, Stilton and not shooting everything that standing up for what he Georgian town house in moves they’re great people. believed in, even if it often I still have a house in LA. made him fierce enemies. west London 2

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6 5 love from burt During my first week 6 co-hosting Good Morning 4 Britain in late 2015 I ambushed Lorraine Kelly on her show in a kilt and clutching a birthday gift for her: a heart-shaped cushion with my face on it. The next day a parcel arrived with this identical cushion with Burt Reynolds’s great granny MY BRAVE BROTHER face on it. I’d interviewed him Pride of place on the desk in my study My brother Jeremy is an officer with the Royal Welsh and for my Life Stories show a few 4 goes to this photo of my grandmother, 5 gives me things he picks up on his military travels in years ago and he was in town Margot Barber, the matriarch of our family return for days out at Lord’s. He served alongside the Gurkhas promoting his autobiography until her death at 94 three years ago. She in Hong Kong in the 90s and they gave him this Nepalese kukri, and had seen Good Morning the instilled in us all a deep-rooted sense of the machete they use as both tool and weapon. The rare SAS previous day. A hand-written mischief and rebellion, and an unwavering coin was presented to him by 22 SAS for some work he did for note on headed paper from his belief that whiskey cures all known illnesses. them in Hereford last year. On the back it says: ‘We are the suite at The Dorchester read, Her favourite motto came from a Covent Garden Pilgrims, master, we shall go always a little further: it may be ‘Piers, love and warm thoughts flower-seller: ‘Life ain’t much but it’s all yer got, beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow, across always, Burt. PS you’re very so stick a geranium in yer ’at and be ’appy!’ that angry or that glimmering sea.’ I’m very proud of him. special.’ So are you Burt.

As told to Rob McGibbon. A new series of Killer Women With Piers Morgan starts on Thursday at 9pm on ITV.

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