Churlish Piers Morgan best known from ‘America’s Got Talent’ and being crowned Donald Trump’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice, takes over for Larry King beginning next Monday, January 17th at 9pm ET on CNN. One person who will not find an invitation is Madonna who Piers said, “She knows why.” Parade magazine caught up with the grudge holding, ex-British tabloid newspaper editor and discussed everything from the royal wedding, Guns N Roses to Simon Cowell. Check out some highlights:
What made Simon Cowell, executive producer of America’s Got Talent, hire him as a judge?
He said he was trying to find somebody as obnoxious as him.
On the Cowell comparison. Are they really alike?
I’m not as vain as him, physically. He has all these treatments and Botox and all. I don’t do that kind of thing. I think we’ve both got big egos. Which are always, of course, driven half by supreme self-confidence and half by supreme insecurity.
On covering the royal wedding..
I’m planning to take the show to London the week before and do it live from there. I knew Diana very well. I had lunch with her and Prince William when he was younger. I’ve known quite a few of the royals—Charles, Camilla, and so on. So I’m in a good position to keep an inside track on all that. It’s actually quite a gift for me, I think, that it’s happening soon into my tenure.
Who knew the Brit likes G-N-R…
I can do a very good Axl Rose impression, stripped to the waist in a bandanna, after I’ve had a few Jack Daniel’s.
And how would Simon Cowell rank that act?
He would get me straight off the show as fast as he possibly could.