Davies reveals all( well some) of John Prescott

Hunter Davies,if you did not know,ghost wrote John Prescott's autobiography and in this week's addition of the New Statesman he describes tthe six months which he spent attached the man himself.

On the first evening, we had dinner at our local pub, the Kirkstile Inn. I
ordered two glasses of beer from Roger mine host, showing off that I knew he
made his own excellent brew. I drank mine. John didn't. Not to his taste,
perhaps. With the meal, Pauline and I got through a bottle between us, but John
had none. Funny, that. Must not be feeling so well.
All week, we had lots of
meals together, which he tucked into with relish, and any other con diments to
hand, but he drank only water or Coke. It turns out he doesn't drink.

And according to Hunter Davies,Prescott was never interested in the money for the deal

in fact all year, when the subject of his finances came up, such as asking him what he paid for his house in Hull, he didn't seem to know. Yet he now needed to make some money, his sons, Johnathan and David, told me, for a deposit on somewhere to live in London

But most interestingly

The bulimia story came out by chance - in the sense that I don't think he had really intended to tell me about it. I had finished the bulk of the book: gone through every year, every big event, in order, got the scaffolding up