New York and Edinburgh have lapped up Celebrity Autobiography. ROBERT CUMBER asks star Michael Urie when his is due

FANCY learning how Peter and Katie spent their evenings in? How David Hasselhoff can play both Jekyll and Hyde? Or What Sly Stallone keeps in his freezer?

Me neither, but these are just some of the gems from actual books about the glitterati to have inspired the hit comedy Celebrity Autobiography.

The play, which went down a storm in New York and, more recently, Edinburgh, comes to London's Leicester Square Theatre next week, with Ugly Betty star Michael Urie leading an ensemble cast putting their peers to shame by reading embarrassing excerpts from their memoirs.

The show has featured a range of guest stars during its three years in New York and the sell-out run in Edinburgh, including comedian Phil Jupitus and actress Brooke Shields, with more surprise guests promised during the London run.

Side-splitting extracts from celebs who take themselves a little too seriously range from Tiger Woods' double entendre-strewn putting advice to 'romance tips' from Tommy Lee and Hollywood's most famous love quadrangle, between Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Burton and Eddie Fisher described in tandem by Taylor and Reynolds.

The show was created by Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, who will feature among the cast in London, and while it has left some audience members asking 'did they really write that?' the pair concede they couldn't make it up.

Michael Urie, who plays bitchy fashionista Marc St James on the US dramedy Ugly Betty, admits he loves reading the often hilarious autobiographical efforts of his fellow celebrities, but says it will be some time before he puts pen to paper.

"I wouldn't even consider it until I was a senior citizen. By then I'll either have forgone humility, or figured out a way to make it a humour book," he told the Chronicle.

As for the most cringeworthy extract he has come across during his time on the show, teen pop sensation Miley Cyrus gets the nod for her candid discussion about menstruation in a mall toilet.