It is not British to say good things about your friends in the media, but hopefully you can on your own blog site. I believe Piers Morgan, my old editor at the News of the World (well young at 28 then!) has really come into his own in the recent series of Britain’s Got Talent.

He has done well in the previous two, but this time I felt his assured summaries and sense of humour meant he is becoming competition for Simon Cowell (watch out Piers!).

Never under-estimate the journalist’s ability to connect with an audience - even if he did called the Flawless/Diversity bout wrong! It was just about his only mis-step in the entire series.

Susan Boyle has sadly been taken to the Priory Clinic. I guess it was an emergency and she needed acute help, but wouldn’t it be better if BGT paid for her to take a nice holiday somewhere away from prying lenses, with her friends from home and not some star-struck contestant whose company she has kept recently?

She needs R and R …. RETURNED to RELATIVE normality.

My good friend Piers Morgan was kind enough to give us a great plug in his GQ interview with the inimitable Marco Pierre White, a chef and a man I admire a great deal. Larger than life is a phrase invented for Marco.

Piers recalls the night we had dinner with Marco and Michael Winner in The Restaurant at the Hyde Park Hotel. It was a memorable evening in which a gargantuan meal cost more than £1,000 for four.

At the end of the meal Marco presented us each with his latest recipe book, signed personally by the great man.

It wasn’t until we sobered up the following day that we discovered he had added the cost of the books to the bill for the meal!! But then Marco never was one to miss an opportunity.

I also recall the night my wife and I ate at another of his wonderful restaurants. He asked me what we fancied to eat. “I like what he’s having,” I said, pointing at a diner at an adjoining table.

Marco strolled over to the customer and said: “Excuse me, but my friend here likes what you are having. I own the restaurant and I am borrowing your dinner. He then took the plate, brought it across and despite my protests insisted I ate the food. (The other diner, by the way was agahast, but was treated like royalty for the rest of the night).

Piers starts recording his new chat show this weekend… watch out for it. I am convinced it will be a huge success because he knows how to get a story out of an unsuspecting victim!