CELIA Walden is the wife of English broadcaster and journalist Piers Morgan with an impressive career in her own right.
She is the former Good Morning Britain host’s second spouse and mother to his youngest child – so what else do we know about her?
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Celia Walden, 45, is a journalist, novelist and critic born in Paris but raised in London.
Her father is former Conservative MP George Walden.
She wrote for the Daily Mail before becoming the last editor of the now defunct Daily Telegraph’s diary section Spy.
At the time, readers complained that her byline picture showed too much flesh.
She dated French chef Jean-Christophe Novelli after interviewing him about cars for the Telegraph in 2006.
In 2015 she shocked the world by admitting she had been a member of the extramarital hook-up site Ashley Madison, though she claimed she signed up for article research.
Her 2011 memoir about her “rapport” with the late George Best – called Babysitting George – drew criticism from Best’s former mistress, who claimed Celia had only ever spent “a few days” with the football star.
Her first novel Harm’s Way was published in 2008 and she has also contributed feature pieces to Glamour magazine, GQ and the Spectator.
Celia started going out with 55-year-old former newspaper editor Piers Morgan in 2006, while he was still married to first wife Marion Shalloe.
They wed in 2010 in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, around the time Piers was a judge on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent.
Celia has spoken out about how she believes she is in charge in their marriage.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain in May 2018 she responded to the question of whether she wore the trousers, saying: “Uhh yes, I think so!
“I think women are always quietly in charge, I just think it’s best to let the men think that they are.”
Celia was left unimpressed in September 2019 when her husband boasted about the sexual tension between him and co-host Susanna Reid, claiming: “Well if we were both single we’d be at it like stoats in a sack.”
Celia gave birth to daughter called Elise in 2011, who is Piers’ fourth child and only girl.
In September 2019, The Sun Online reported how the cheeky schoolgirl had emailed her dad when he was hosting ITV breakfast show GMB to call him a “pig.”
Celia has previously spoken about how Elise has her dad wrapped around her little finger.
She said “Elise definitely puts him in his place!”
