Piers Morgan and wife Celia Walden welcome a toddler girl

Piers Morgan has become a father for the fourth time.

His wife Celia Walden, 34, has given birth to a child girl, the Mail Online has learned.

The couple, who married in June last year, have named their daughter Elise.

Baby joy: Piers Morgan and wife Celia Walden have welcomed a toddler girl

The new addition was born at celebrity-favourite Cedars Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills.

Mail on Sunday’s Live magazine columnist Celia announced that she was expecting in June.

It is her first child, while Morgan has three sons from his previous marriage.

Morgan, 46, met the daughter of former Conservative MP George Walden on a photoshoot for the boys’s magazine GQ.

Married life: The couple married in a quiet Oxfordshire ceremony in June 2010

He flirtatiously claimed she was a Brigitte Bardot lookalike, but at the beginning admitted Ms Walden was ‘way out of my league’.

He proposed on a romantic trip to Paris in 2009 by presenting Ms Walden with a book by her favourite novelist, American John Updike, entitled
Marry Me.

Previously he claimed he was planning to apply a video recording he
had prepared of singer Stevie Wonder ordering Ms Walden to just accept his proposal.

Morgan failed to even invite his fellow Britain’s Got Talent judge Simon Cowell to his wedding.

Family man: Morgan has three sons from his first marriage, Stanley, Bertie and Spencer, pictured together in 2007

Asked later why he had not made the music mogul his best man, he explained: ‘I couldn’t trust him to show up on time.’

Cowell later quipped back: ‘Having met Celia, I actually have no idea how Piers managed to drag this one off.’

Morgan and his first wife Marion Shalloe divorced in 2008 after nearly two decades together.

Morgan recently resigned his post on America’s Got Talent panel to spotlight his CNN programme Piers Morgan Tonight.

A spokesperson for Morgan had no comment today.