FNC’s Glenn Beck is the cover story in USA WEEKEND magazine this week and the author, Dennis McCafferty, lists 10 items many people might not know about the host garnered from a conversation in Beck’s Manhattan office.

Among them: he has a lot of liberal friends, Britney Spears is partly responsible for his career success, he’s not happy with the GOP, Orson Welles is one of his greatest influences, he thinks he’s turning into Jabba the Hutt, and he is aware that “he can be a jerk.”

The article’s online here, and you can read the print version after the jump: