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LONDON: Telly show-off Piers Morgan loves a challenge – but even he may have bitten off more than he can chew with his latest wish, reported British daily The Sun on Thursday.
He grins: “I want to do a big screen love scene with Jessica Alba.”
The married chat show host — who returns to ITV tomorrow night with a new series of Life Stories — has put the fantasy bunk-up with the sexy actress top of his list of goals for 2013.
Piers says: “I am looking to expand my movie career this year. I had a cameo in a film with Denzel Washington last year and I have done comedy and drama.
“So this year I would hopefully like to do a love scene with Jessica Alba.”
He appeared with Denzel in Flight and was also in The Campaign with Will Ferrell a year ago.
Oh, and he would also like to BUY Arsenal, his beloved — but currently disappointing — football team.
Piers, who has been campaigning on Twitter for embattled Gunners coach Arsene Wenger to resign, says: “I wouldn’t mind buying Arsenal, especially the way they are playing at the moment. I want Arsenal to be successful again.
“They haven’t been successful for a very long time and I am fed up with it.
“If anyone follows my Twitter, I don’t agree with the club or the manager. Wenger has had his glory days.
“We need to get someone new now who is fresh and who wants to win things.
“I take a very keen interest in them as a business and a football club. If the opportunity came around in the future to buy a stake or to be part of a consortium, I wouldn’t hesitate.”
The latest series of Life Stories kicks off at 9pm tomorrow, with Esther Rantzen in the hot seat.
Later shows will see him interview celebrities including Lorraine Kelly, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Britt Ekland, Bruno Tonioli and Karren Brady.
But the former newspaper editor reveals they do not all cry.
Piers says: “It’s actually a bit of a myth that everybody cries on the show.
“I don’t look for it. If they want to laugh or cry, they can.
“I am just looking for genuine feelings towards a subject.
“I want it to be an authentic chat and we choose the people who come on the show quite carefully. We choose them for the strength of their story.
“Look at the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? It doesn’t matter who they are, but they have to have a cracking story.
“I have done 50 Life Stories now and I have got into a good rhythm.
“Thanks to my slot on CNN, I definitely think it has helped my interview technique — and I have honed in now on what a viewer wants to hear and how you extract that from the guest.
“But I do get quite emotional with some of the guests.
“I remember being incredibly moved by Ronnie Corbett.
“He brought back a huge part of my childhood. He was the biggest thing on television and to hear him talk so affectionately about Ronnie Barker and then get up and do a whole monologue by the side of the stage was incredibly moving.”
Piers, who now fronts a talk show for news channel CNN in the US, still keeps in touch with his former Britain’s Got Talent pal Simon Cowell.
As TV Biz revealed earlier this week, he caught up with Simon last weekend as part of a wind-up for Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, which returns on Saturday.
Piers says: “I do miss working with Simon. When we were working, you’d go to his house and you’d hang out.
“But we are still in touch with each other. I don’t think I would be doing anything in America if it wasn’t for him.”
Piers loves nothing more than a bit of controversy — and has certainly caused some in America over his anti-gun stance following the Sandy Hook school shootings.
He says: “It is not a reason to stop. It is a big issue. I have got four kids.
“My little girl may well go to an elementary school there in a couple of years.
“I want to make sure kids of her age are safe.
“It’s the least any society should do for their children.”
Asked if he was worried about his own security since standing firm on the issue of guns, he says: “Throughout my newspaper career I was getting death threats.
“I once had three SAS guards living in my house when a right-wing group threatened me.
Relishing his role on CNN — which has seen Kelsey Grammer walk out after he took a dislike to Piers’ questioning and some guests not even turning up — Piers says he would love to get Jack Nicholson on.
He also hopes his decision to co-finance Paul Gascoigne’s visit to a rehab centre in Arizona, as revealed by The Sun, would help his troubled footballer pal.
Piers says: “Gazza has always been very generous to me and I hope it works for him.”
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