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It started as a bet. 'You get me to meet Simon Cowell and I'll do anything you like, china,' said Kevin Pietersen, England's current superstar cricketer. (China, for the uninitiated, is short for 'china plate', which is cockney rhyming slang for 'mate'.) Three weeks later, I led Mr Pietersen through the halls of the Fountain Television Studios in Wembley, where Britain's Got Talent was being filmed, past my dingy little dressing room in an airless corner, and into the hallowed luxury of the palatial Cowell boudoir. Simon knows nothing about cricket, and cares even less, but even he had heard of KP, and happily posed for photographs with him and England skipper Michael Vaughan. 'Thanks, china!' said an ecstatic KP afterwards, 'that guy's a legend!' Enlarge Good sports: Kevin Pietersen with Piers Morgan at the village cricket... [read full story]
