I believe that part of Warrel's family is Italian, though I don't remember which. Not the NY-I-say-I'm-Italian-because-I-know-3-words-in-Italian Italian, but someone directly from Italy.
I'm thinking something like his mom married an Italian or something like that, but I'm not sure.
He speaks some Italian pretty well, too...not the fake Sopranos Italian you see on tv, but actual Italian. He also drank all my friends under the table one night in Treviso. With GRAPPA.
I think Warrel's liver will live forever, even after Warrel is gone.