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Andrew Morton
As one of the world’s best-known biographers and a leading authority on modern celebrity, Morton has been called "the king of celebrity biographers."
He became an overnight sensation with the publication of his groundbreaking 1992 biography revealing the secret world of the late Diana, Princess of Wales. This seminal work, translated into 35 languages and a worldwide bestseller, inspired films, documentaries and commentaries about the royal family, changing forever the way the public viewed this ancient institution.
Praising Morton's reporting and insight, Tina Brown declared in The Diana Chronicles: "The journalist Morton most reminds me of is Bob Woodward."
Morton has since written half a dozen New York Times top ten best sellers, including four debuting at number one, deftly profiling Monica Lewinsky, Madonna, David and Victoria Beckham, Tom Cruise, and Angelina Jolie.
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Articles From Andrew Morton
Saturday Sep 10, 2011 46:49 PM ET
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were targeted by Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and former President Bill Clinton to give tax breaks to the controversial Church of Scientology.
Wednesday Sep 7, 2011 30:19 PM ET
Is the "Rear of the Year" off the market?
Tuesday Sep 6, 2011 50:00 PM ET
HELLOOO YOU LUCKY LOVELY AMERICAN LAAADEEEEEZ! Brace yourselves for party loving Prince Harry's arrival stateside in the next few weeks.
Tuesday Aug 30, 2011 00:00 PM ET
On the eve of the anniversary of Diana's death two TMR writers ask the question that has perplexed a generation; would the princess have married her Muslim lover Dodi Fayed?
Tuesday Aug 30, 2011 20:00 PM ET
The Queen has given permission to her grandson, Prince William. to talk behind her back
Monday Aug 29, 2011 27:11 PM ET
A Florida Church has a unique prize available for auction: a personal tour of Earl Spencer's stately home Althorp, and Princess Diana's final resting place.
Friday Aug 26, 2011 10:00 PM ET
Unless there is real drama, anyone trying to dramatise a royal romance - or the royal family for that matter - is buying a one way ticket for the coconut shy.
Thursday Aug 25, 2011 31:32 PM ET
A cache of 15 letters discovered in an attic have shed fresh light on the most intriguing royal romance of the last century.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2011 05:00 AM ET
It's a tough life being a prince -- how do you gauge who is sincere and who is simply using proximity to the purple to get a leg up the social ladder - or to promote a book, film or failing career.
Monday Aug 15, 2011 39:11 PM ET
For a woman who never gambled, the late Diana, Princess of Wales is spending the next six months of her life in an East Coast casino.
Sunday Aug 14, 2011 13:20 AM ET
The 85-year-old Duchess of Alba is one of the richest women in Spain, with a fortune valued at more than a billion euros, but the lovestruck duchess is giving it all away so that she can wed a man 25 years her junior.
Saturday Aug 13, 2011 16:46 AM ET
It is not just in California where the Pippa buttalike contest has taken hold. New Jersey plastic surgeon Brian Gatt says: "I hear Pippa's name every day from clients."
Thursday Aug 11, 2011 15:00 PM ET
After the where and the when, comes the why and the who. Who were these people who set Britain ablaze this week, leaving at least three dead, and why did they do it?What was the trigger behind such rage? What...
Wednesday Aug 10, 2011 42:46 PM ET
Shocking video of student Ashraf Haziq goes global.
Tuesday Aug 9, 2011 01:42 AM ET
TMR's Andrew Morton reports on London's recent riots -- and predicts it's just the tip of the iceberg. With economic unrest settling deep within the world's once most vibrant economy, citizens are bound to rebel.
Friday Aug 5, 2011 44:25 AM ET
Actress Courteney Cox made it mainstream with her TV show Cougar Town, a show about an older woman dating younger men. Now the phenomenon of the "cougar" -- older women who hook up with younger guys -- has crossed the Atlantic. It's official!
Monday Jul 25, 2011 19:38 AM ET
Whatever the truth of Morgan’s involvement in hacking during his time in Fleet Street - he was also editor of the News of the World - the affair has undermined CNN’s claim to occupy the moral high ground.
Friday Jul 22, 2011 27:38 PM ET
It stands in a halo of light, the veil and 1936 Cartier tiara loaned by the Queen, suspended above the space where Catherine’s smiling face should be. As a result the wedding dress looks, according to witnesses, rather ‘ghostly and spooky.’
Tuesday Jul 19, 2011 48:06 AM ET
Half close your eyes and you could imagine the tumbrils rolling through the streets of London today as more of the now fearful high and mighty are headed for the implacable Madame Guillotine.
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Saturday Jul 16, 2011 30:36 PM ET
Spare a thought too though for the poor old Father of the Bride. Not only does he have to make what is often a meandering apology for a speech, but to add insult to indifference, he has to pay for it too.
Monday Jul 11, 2011 34:05 AM ET
Rupert Murdoch's world continues to crumble around him as two new News International papers are drawn into hacking scandal.
Sunday Jul 10, 2011 10:09 PM ET
How a future king helped dethrone an overmighty press baron.
Saturday Jul 9, 2011 59:31 PM ET
After all the hoopla, the Hollywood arrival of Prince William and his fragrant bride was more of a whimper than a bang.
Friday Jul 8, 2011 11:49 PM ET
Rumors are circulating that fashion maven and notorious ice queen Anna Wintour is shopping a memoir to potential publishers.
Thursday Jul 7, 2011 44:40 PM ET
It might be the end of the world for the News of the World but it is just the start of an inquiry which would, if Diana were alive today, have given her much comfort. A woman dismissed as "deranged and paranoid" would finally have been vindicated.
Friday Jul 1, 2011 11:59 PM ET
On the first day of her overseas tour to Canada it seems that Catherine Middleton got her fashion inspiration from two unlikely sources; Beckingham Palace, the mock name for David and Victoria Beckham’s palatial home in Essex, and Downing Street,...
Thursday Jun 30, 2011 49:34 PM ET
As Catherine Middleton touches down in Ottawa, Canada for her first royal tour today, Princess Diana in her own words about her own 'traumatic' baptism of fire overseas and why this time the royals have got it right.
Tuesday Jun 28, 2011 00:00 PM ET
As she turned 50 she had given up the chance to become queen. She would instead be representing not the House of Windsor but herself on the world stage, a global icon, unique, charismatic and seemingly indestructible.
Tuesday Jun 28, 2011 45:26 AM ET
As predicted by the Morton Minute two weeks ago, there have been more arrests in the long-running phone tapping saga that has embroiled the British media.
Thursday Jun 23, 2011 18:17 AM ET
Just a week before what would have been her 50th birthday, 14 of the iconic gowns worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, are going for auction.
Wednesday Jun 22, 2011 59:25 AM ET
What a year it has been for the Middletons. A future queen and now a possible princess in waiting. What price a knighthood for Mr Middleton?
Sunday Jun 19, 2011 06:54 PM ET
On this Fathers' Day weekend a touching celebrity father and son tableau at the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel. Frank Gifford, football Hall of Famer and husband of Today Show co-host Kathie Lee, spent a bonding weekend with pin-up USC student...
Friday Jun 17, 2011 31:31 PM ET
It seems like she has always been with us, her smiling face adorning every supermarket magazine. Just 50 days have passed since her wedding to Prince William April 29 but Catherine Middleton has taken to her new calling as if to the manor born.
Thursday Jun 16, 2011 46:50 PM ET
My spies in Hollywood tell me that scriptwriters for the new series of Two and a Half Men are wrestling with how to introduce Ashton Kutchner into the long-running CBS sitcom.
Thursday Jun 16, 2011 24:41 AM ET
The newly-minted Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will have much more than the ghost of King George II to contend with when they move into the royal family's most haunted house, Kensington Palace.James Clark's description of the royal ghoul to...
Tuesday Jun 14, 2011 01:45 AM ET
I first met actress Tamsin Greig, who plays Debbie Aldridge in the radio soap, The Archers, when one of her three children - it was difficult to tell which one - was projectile vomiting over her shoulder at a rather smart garden party thrown by her radio 'father', the caddish Brian Aldridge aka actor Charles Collingwood at his country estate in Hampshire.
Monday Jun 13, 2011 28:10 PM ET
While it was the Queen's official birthday this weekend, it was also, naturally, the official birthday of the doyenne of royal watchers, James Whitaker.
Monday Jun 13, 2011 01:55 PM ET
Kate Moss' choice of the Isle of Wight pop festival to hold her three-day hen 'do' - complete with 30 best friends and enough booze to sink, well, an island - certainly rolled back the years.
Saturday Jun 11, 2011 22:58 AM ET
This is how not to win the man of your dreams. This young lady is making a film to 'sell' herself for a dating agency. Personable, attractive and smart she starts well until she gets on to the subject closest...
Friday Jun 10, 2011 52:40 AM ET
The new British phone tapping allegations involving corrupt police and customs officers, petty criminals and murder suspects who fed information to British newspapers for a price are the most serious to date.
Wednesday Jun 8, 2011 05:00 PM ET
Isn't it ironic that the long-cherished liberal ideal of freedom of expression is in danger of being snuffed out in Britain just as in the Arab world and elsewhere people are fighting and dying for the right to be heard.
Tuesday Jun 7, 2011 14:52 PM ET
What pray does Kissinger, a legendary shuttle diplomat routinely associated with the late President Nixon, reconciliation with China and the Vietnam war, know about soccer?
Monday Jun 6, 2011 49:16 AM ET
Kim Kardashian may be parading her 20.5 carat diamond engagement ring around as though it's the biggest in Hollywood, but that honour goes to her NBA wife rival Vanessa Bryant. Claws back in ladies.
Monday Jun 6, 2011 04:15 AM ET
One of the most treasured photographs in my study is a black and white picture of the wetlands in the south of England signed by photographer Linda McCartney whom I met at an exhibition of her photographs. As talented...
Friday Jun 3, 2011 45:21 PM ET
These are the pictures that will bring joy and comfort to conspiracy theorists the world over. They are proof that Governments do lie. The black and white shots are never before seen pictures of a crashed spy plane and another...
Friday Jun 3, 2011 00:54 AM ET
Interesting that William and Catherine are appearing on the front cover of Vanity Fair, the Bible of celebrity, this month. The picture adorning the glossy is an unused print from the session a few days after the engagement where ...
Thursday Jun 2, 2011 27:26 AM ET
Catherine has already attracted the ire of firebrand Canadian politician Amir Khadir, who described she and husband Prince William as 'parasites' and 'circus freaks.' It is but a taste of the hostility she will face from the dissident organisations during their tour of Canada this summer.
Thursday May 26, 2011 50:00 AM ET
Whether she wants to be a fashion icon or not, the Duchess of Cambridge is under pressure to look camera ready every minute of the day. That brings its own stresses and strains.
Monday May 23, 2011 23:42 PM ET
It may not be Beverly Hills or Manhattan but for the Real Royal Housewife of Anglesey, it is home sweet home.
Wednesday May 18, 2011 16:51 AM ET
Sources have revealed to the Morton Report exclusively that action star Vin Diesel has signed on to star in a film about the Navy's Seal Team Six. The team, as some may recall, are the highly trained elite force who...
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