people. >> if she had to choose just one song to sing, it wouldn't be one of her own. >> i would sing one of my favorite songs of all time, "man in the mirror". >> one of mine. >> and a hip-hop everyone sar you, the author, and the go-to man with hooking up hip-hop with fortune 500 companies. how they make them to cash magnets. how president obama can get related. and offered me some advice. >> go hair spray or something. >> oh, really? >> you have so many twitter followers, you can get that off. >> this is piers morgan tonight. jackie collins sold 400 million copies of her books, quite extraordinary. you read one of them, you know this about jackie. she's no shrinking violet. >> your sister isn't here to grab all of the attention now like she did the l.a. time. >> come on, you know you used to watch her on dynasty. >> she's a scene stealer. >> you used to read your books when you were younger. >> she kicks ass, that's what women likes to see. >> let me see. there are lots of women kicking as srk out there at the moment, michelle bachmann, sarah palin. what do you make of it? >> i don't make a lot of them. but i think they -- they're coming out with kind of ridiculous sentences and ideas and i can't get with it. i -- you know, i want the democrats to stay out of my -- what do i want them to stay out of? i want them to stay out of my wallet and i want the republicans to stay out of my bedroom. i'm right down the middle, you know? i'm an independent. >> i find the fascinating thing about american politics is no one is quite sure which way the republicans will go here. they have mitt romney, john huisman. they're not threatening the electorate. you have the tea party gathering the momentum. a huge following behind them. but there is still a sense of what would we get ourselves into if they governed the country? >> what's so interesting about the politics in this country you are what you looked like. if george clooney got up tomorrow and said i want to be president of america, the women in america would vote for him. you me that's true. >> you could to a lot worse. he's a very motivated guy. >> what do you think of barack obama's performance. >> i'm not happy with it. i don't think anybody is happy with it. it's interesting living in the heart of hollywood saying he's hope, he's hope. he's not. it's just not happening. and i think he's not experienced enough. i really was a mccain fan. i thought he was great. he was an american hero. >> could anybody really have taken over when barack obama did and done much with the economy in the state that it was in. it was so catastrophic? is he just realized that actually it's going to take years and years to repair the damage. >> yes, but you cannot whine about the last person who was the president. you cannot do that after two years. you have to do your own thing. and i think he can get it together, maybe. i don't know. but i don't see anybody who will be better unless george clooney decides to run. >> how long have you lived in america? >> over 20 years. i used to come here all the time when i was a teenager. my second home. i came here first when i was 15. i love hollywood. i've been writing about it every since. in hollywood lives, that's the base of my life. >> what do you love about it? why are you here. you love it, right? >> i love new york as well. you love london. you're an l.a. girl, right? i love the beach, i love the fact that you can go to the desert. you can go to palm springs, las vegas and gamble and skiing in the mountains. so much to do here. it's an exciting place to live. >> all of the big stars tend to live here, right? >> yeah, as a writer, i go to a lot of parties and i like to be an observer. i like to think i'm an anthropologist crawling through the jungles of hollywood watching what goes on. >> who's the most single most charismatic male star you met. >> that's a good question. >> marlon brando. >> he was fantastic. he was my favorite movie star. and when i first met him, ill thought this man was interesting. he would have been a great politician too. >> did you -- >> you'll read about it in my memoir. >> taste of it? >> no. >> fling or -- >> something like when i was 16. we won't get to that now. >> the detail. >> it was everything you would think it was. yes. >> i want to talk to you about the behavior of some of the politicians this year in america from a sex point of view. because there seems to be a run of quite extraordinary even by politician standard stories. weeniegate, for example. >> it's unbelievable. >> did you grasp why a man would behave like that? >> oh as a man, what would you say about it? >> modern technology, i guess, has led some people like him to think that cyberfriends are, i don't know, a safer form of adultery? who knowles. >> you're on twitter all the time. i am. can you imagine doing something? can you imagine standing in front of a mirror and photographing you're? >> i wouldn't have communication with people i didn't know. that's what i found so extraordinary for a politician on somewhere like twitter where you don't know who the people are. >> he's talking to women and photographing himself. you don't want that man to be in a position of power. how can you trust him? it's like clinton when he got up in front of the world and said, i did not have sex with that woman. what did he call it? he changed the whole horizon of what teenagers regard as sex. >> in clinton's case, he's now remembers ever more fondly as one of the great presidents and people mourned his departure from the stage. they wanted him to carry on. >> people love sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. >> do people care about politician's sex life. does it matter? >> it matters. ed if you're the president of america, you should have a moral kind of standard. with kids in school, for instance, i write a lot about sex, but you don't have to pick up a book and read it. if you're the president, you say it wasn't sex and it actually was sex, then the kids in school are going to say, oh, well if he can do it, we can do it. and they are. >> you were strong when arnold schwarzenegger came in with the nannygate. >> i'm so surprised by that. why wouldn't i be. he's a guy living in a house with his beautiful wife. maria is a fantastic woman. he's screwing the housekeeper and having a baby with her which he knew about. i wrote this piece where i said to men, in general, zip it up. someone call med a raunchy moralist. >> you believe in raunchy sex, it's legit. >> if you're single, do whatever you want. hang from the lights here. >> married, unmarried. they're committing adultery and -- >> that's fiction. there's great married sex too. lucky santangelo has great sex. >> but many people in your books have torrid affairs. >> yeah, that's what i see around me? >> are you not quietly encouraging this behavior. people read this book and they think, that's a good idea. i want one of those affairs jackie collins is writing about? >> they do. i get great kind of tweets from married people who go, oh, you know, my wife was reading her book and we were on our honeymo honeymoon. i said what are you reading? let me say, this is great. we end up having a fantastic time together. i inspire people. i write erotic sex as opposed to rude sex. >> what's rude sex. >> you don't want me to tell you on this show. >> it's a late-night show. >> get bleeped, yes. >> what i think is fantastic about it is i have no idea how old you are. if i were to pass you in the street, i would guess around 50. >> right. >> i know that can't be true. >> where are you going with this? >> you were born four years before me. how do you look like this? your sister is the same. how do you preserve yourself so brilliantly. >> i'm a one man band. life is an adventure. i get up every morning, life is an adventure. i don't know what i'm going to do but write. if you do what you love to do, it reflects in your whole personality. i'm not one of the women in to maintenance. i play ping-pong, swim in my pool and i lift a few weights occasionally but that's all i do. i eat whatever i want. >> women want to hear -- >> i know, you see all the girls who go to the award premieres and they're fantastic. they're in the beautiful gowns. you see them in the magazine next week they're on their own, you're like, what is that? what did the cat drag in? it's the stylist and the maintenance. they spend their whole life. i couldn't do that and write books. >> joan's big secret is she never goes to the sun. since 21. >> she's in the sun all the time. >> i've seen her in san troe pay. a mummied figured. >> you were? >> you were in san tropei. >> when i came to america, being english, i threw myself by the pool every day. i thought, this is fantastic, i had the most glorious sun tan. i said this is the most boring thing i can possibly think of and i can be bothered to go in the sun now. being in ap air conditioned house writing characters. >> 400 million books you've sold. >> yeah. >> can't be many people alive you sold more books. >> i've been doing it for such a long time. >> what is the secret of continuing to write books that people buy in such huge numbers, do you think? >> i think i write characters that people are interested in. lucky santangelo is a james bond for women. she's a character that women take power from. i get tweets and letters from my female fans who go, i broke up with my boyfriend and i was going to lie on the bathroom floor and cry and sob. and i thought, what would lucky do. i thought, screw it, i'm going to go do what she would do. women have to look after themselves. they have to have a career, a passion in life, they cannot live their lives through a man. i think that's so important. my message is girls can do anything. because i was expelled from school at 15 and i achieved all of this by myself. and i think that's a good message to women. >> it is. let's go to a break. we'll talk more about the book. more about writing. you still handwrite these things. >> i know. >> it's lms keyensian, not even victorian. 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hanging by the pool with a few people. you know what they say, what happens in vegas, stays in va gas. well, what happens in my house, stays in my house. >> that's the average day in the life of hollywood superstar jackie collins. don't be mad it's your life. let's face it. >> there's been ups and downs, piers. people say, she has this lavish life, built a house in hollywood. she has all these books. but i also nursed two men through terminal illnesses. there's people going through the same thing. i feel i can help people. i feel i can celebrate people's lives as they go as opposed to mourning their deaths. >> what is the best way to deal with a terrible tragedy like a loved one, a husband, a partner that you lose through an appalling lengthy illness. what do you think having been through this now several times, what do you recommend to people? >> there's no best way to deal with it. you have to go on. people have to survive after they lose loved ones. you wan to survive by remembering them in a good way. pictures are fantastic to have a lot of photos in them. always have good memories, always think good thoughts not think about the bad times perhaps when they're ill and angry, you don't think about that. you think of the good times. there are so many people out there living with people who have terminal illnesses and i can only say to them have courage and go on because it will be over one day and you can just celebrate their life. >> are you still on the didding scene? >> i live my life like an affluent bachelor. >> i love it. what does it mean? >> it means when i was a kid growi ining up, i would read my father's "playboy," they had a fabulous car and fabulous apartment, a great sound system. they could do whatever they waned to do. i have been married an engaged all my life. i lost my fiance, i said i'm going to live like an affluent bachelor, i want to do what i want to do when i want to do it. >> is there a constant stream of boy toys. >> i'm not in to toy boys. i have a man for every occasion. make of that what you will. >> how many occasions are we talking about here? >> oh, well, that would be revealing too much. >> do you love men or do you deeply distrust men? what have been the overview of the male species? >> i think men are fantastic. some of my best friends are men. men really are little boys. they are. they love their toys. you've got to feed them and you've got to keep them warm. i was going to say something rude, but i won't. and just, you know, treat them as though they are the most fresh thing in your life if you're with somebody. i believe in being faithful if you're with somebody. >> should women ever fully tru the man they're with? >> no, no. you cannot trust a man. it's too tempting. there's too many temptations. you're on a television show. you're nice on this show, horrendous on the other show. road to everybody. right? >> honest. >> you must know now that you're in the public eye, women throw themselves at you. >> nightmare. >> a smal on his face, he's a nightmare. a lot of very famous men friends. i watched it so many times. and i remember one woman in london, she was very rich. she was married to a very rich man. she would go after every celebrity. she would come to the nightclub and go, oh, that's this one and that's that. they all kind of succumb to her except michael kahne. he went, why would i want her when i've got shakira. he was always like, great. >> this book has always been a best seller. >> in england. >> how many copies do you think shift to this world? >> i don't know, shift. >> my twitter fans are going crazy about it. it's great. >> what is your twitter address? >> jackie j. collins. >> what is yours? >> piers morgan. >> i follow you. >> i follow you. >> lifetime pursuit. >> sin you read the first sex scene in the book. >> i write good sex, that's why. >> been a real pleasure as always. >> it was lovely. >> a cracking book. i love this title. 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