Coogan spends his spare time at his house in the Lake District. "I don't like going to sunny places on holiday. I love Britain" He walks and reads classic-car magazines and history books - and he goes cycling on the South Downs. "They are not particularly exciting things", he says. "But I like doing them." Coogan lives outside Brighton, near to Clare, his 16-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, in a mansion he shares with Elle Basey, a 23-year-old lingerie model he met when he was guest-editing Loaded. This is something he rarely opens up about, saying that he doesnt like to bang on about his social life.
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
