uk+kiwi

So, you are having a dinner party tomorrow night (it is Saturday) and you can invite up to 8 people (dead or alive), who would you choose & why?

Off the top of my head, I am inviting:

Bono from U2 - favourite all time band & mystery man. Have never seen a single photo of him, his wife and 4 children.

Bob Geldof - interesting character, done some great things, does his hair look greasy in real life?

Brad Pitt - closest thing to all round drop dead gorgeous I have ever seen but strongly suspect he is an unfaithful lovable bastard (just watched Ocean's 11 again, it is such a great movie). Would quiz him on Angelina Jolie.

Nicola Horlick - top career and excellent mother - hmmm? sadly marriage didn't last, but she also looks gorgeous

Catherine Zeta Jones - just curious.

Victoria Beckham - I do apologise as I am not a big fan but again very curious - she is the marketing master of our time....along with

JK Rowling - She has done a great job for children's literacy, but would love to know her opinion on the millions of adults who have been buying & reading her books. Personally I find it worrying.

Richard Branson - the brain of an entrepreneur.

So that's it. I think it would be a very entertaining evening!

gruffbrown

Spike Milligan

Peter Ustinov

Stephen Wright

Rowan Atkinson

Billy Connelly

Bette Midler

W C Fields

Katherine Hepburn

Should be lively.....

Edit. This is almost impossible add Steve McQueen and Sean Connery and take out?

80s Chick

Stephen Fry (funny and clever, need an erudite person on the table)

Germaine Greer (I need someone on my side)

Jacqueline Wilson (popular children's author who raises awareness of social issues in almost every book she writes, the number 1 most borrowed author in all the libraries in the UK)

Nelson Mandela

50 Cent (just curious, is he at all coherent?)

Olaudah Equiano (an African slave who wrote a book on his experiences)

Moliere (French playwright)

Dr Martin Luther King

gruffbrown

Damn, make that Stephen Fry as well

80s Chick

You can always add someone else. I deliberately steered away from eye candy because at a dinner party I want to engage in conversation. Ali and I were saying 8 isn't enough, 800 would be more like it...Peter Ustinov definitely, Robert Morley yes, Anne Widdecombe would keep everyone alert (and she shares my hatred of fox hunting), William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, James Baldwin, Jo Brand, Mo Mowlam... could go on forever.

Phyl

BTW gruff, who is Stephen Wright?

gruffbrown

Very deadpan American comedian, he has some great one liners , LOL yes and Jo Brand ...and Paul Merton

http://www.freemaninstitute.com/Wright.htm

80s Chick

Yes, yes, yes, I know him. Wasn't he on Saturday Night Live in the 80s? I've definitely seen him somewhere. I love his delivery, absolutely deadpan. And that dishevelled look really worked.

Gill and Rob

I don't care who comes as long as they

Are not fussy and eat anything
Come with loads of great wine
Don't smoke
Have a sense of humour

Know when to leave

Cheers
Gill

80s Chick

I've got the Oyster Bay Merlot Gill,what's cooking?

Phyl

gruffbrown

4 out of 5 isn't bad......

gruffbrown

Just remembered Caroline Quentin, Steve Partridge, Lenny Henry and Dawn French

Ransi

any one with some vaseline...

gruffbrown

And Tony Robinson for his pure enthusiasm

gruffbrown

Sore arse Ransi?

Ransi

Nah...lips