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By BAZ BAMIGBOYE

Last updated at 08:22 29 February 2008


Insider: Piers Morgan

• Piers Morgan, whose fictionalised, sorry, totally truthful shenanigans, The Insider: The Private Diaries Of A Scandalous Decade, are being turned into a movie. Working Title is hoping to make the film and the suggestion I heard at Soho House in Hollywood, from someone who'd been on the Grey Goose vodka, was that Colin Firth would play Mr Morgan by day and Colin Farrell would play him by night. Harvey Weinstein, who has read Morgan's book (it is funny), alternatively suggested Russell Crowe could nail Morgan. Whack him, more like. Morgan's big over in the U.S. because of a show called America's Got Talent. I saw perfectly intelligent people come up to him and tell him they adore him.

• Michael Sheen, who will begin filming director Tom Hooper's movie The Damned United, about Brian Clough's controversial 44 days as manager of Leeds United in 1974. Clough replaced Don Revie, a man he hated, at a club he loathed. The film's from the team of Andy Harries and Peter Morgan, who produced and wrote The Queen. Colm Meaney and Timothy Spall are rumoured to be in negotiations to portray Revie and Clough's brilliant right-hand man Peter Taylor.

• Clarke Peters, part of the ensemble cast of The Wire, a hit crime show running here on HBO, who will join David Bedella, Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal and Kerry Ellis as the leads in the concert version of the Tim Rice-Bjorn Ulvaeus-Benny Anderson musical Chess at the Royal Albert Hall on May 13.

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