Piers Morgan has a reputation (in some quarters) for being a ruthless interviewer who will ask the questions that other people don't. But really, I wasn't expecting this show to be much different to Piers' previous interview shows. And it wasn't, aside from the added ITV fluff that they threw at the show with snippets from friends and family. It was a bit like Parky meets An Audience With. Just with one of the most annoying blokes on the telly thrown in for good measure.

This episode saw Piers interview the glamour-model-turned-cleavage-turned-businesswoman Katie Price. There's no denying that Katie Price is a very smart woman. I can't stand her alter-ego, Jordan, but I find that I can't help but warm to this smart, pretty, business-savvy lady. And I think Piers did too. He knew that the ITV audience liked this woman (just check the amount of work she does for the network) and getting her offside wasn't a good idea. Although when she said that she was a feminist, he did win points by saying she was "hardly Germaine Greer" [to be fair, she also admitted that she didn't have a clue who Germaine Greer was - Ed].

Despite coming across as warm and open, she was pretty guarded through most of the interview. Each answer came back short and clipped and while they didn't sound rehearsed, they were very standard answers. Yes she fancied Peter Andre before he went in the jungle. No she didn't love Dwight Yorke. Their relationship was just drunken shags apparently. The answers she gave were as straightforward as Morgan's questioning, but she didn't share anything new really. It was just "everything you knew about Katie Price already in one hour long show".

She did falter though. After talking about the time a paedophile photographer almost duper her during an early photoshoot, she mentioned something briefly about being assaulted in a park when she was young. There were a few tears but she decided that it was too personal an incident to talk about it any further. "I'm shocked because I knew nothing about this. I wasn't expecting this to come out," said a shocked Piers. Which made me wonder, why do interviews in which you think you know everything already? [briefings by PR people etc - Ed]

And that's the problem with this show. It's very entertaining. If you want to know more about someone who interests you but is slightly under your radar then it's great. But there's nothing new in this format. It's nothing that Parky hasn't done before. While Morgan is less sycophantic than Parky, Life Stories is just an hour long chatshow without music at the end. The harsh and straightforward interviews are broken up with lovely fluffy childhood snippets and mini interviews with people you don't really care about and it breaks the momentum. This show relies on Piers' ruthless image to bring in an audience, but the celebrities they've chosen to be interviewed know what they're doing and won't give anything new away unless they really want to. So really, what's the point?

You can catch the uncut version of the show on ITV2 tonight at 9pm, although if there was anything very juicy in it, I imagine they'd have put that in last night's show.