Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets
Living and Dying
S1 • E2 Nov 1, 2012
The actor tours the rooms, restaurants and bars where the rich and famous have lived, died and fallen in love, checking in to Bastille's L'Hotel in Paris where Oscar Wilde spent his last days. He travels to New York's Chelsea Hotel, where long-term residents included Mark Twain, Stanley Kubrick, Edith Piaf, Sid Vicious and Robert Mapplethorpe. Richard also heads to the Dorchester in London's Mayfair, where Britt Ekland shares her memories of meeting and falling for Peter Sellers there in 1964.