Your ideal gathering/dinner party...who would you invite, family excepted?

Oscar Wilde.
Stephen Fry
My Brother
Stephen Hawking
Pope John Paul
My Mum and Dad as they would have been in awe of my guests

I don't turn down good conversation with food. I'm free

Prince Charles
Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster
Janet Street Porter
Susie Dent
John Humphries

Michelle and Barack Obama
Judy Dench,
Meryl Streep
Naga from bbc news.
Dan from bbc news
Nelson Mandela
Diana Princess of Wales.

Jesus
Princess Diana
Donny Osmond (sitting next to me )
Ross Noble
Liza Tarbuck
Barbara Streisand
Tommy Steele
Graham Norton

HM the Queen
David Attenborough.
Dr.Michael Mosley
Sir Paul Mc Cartney

Leonard Cohen
Er..........that’s it.

I'd just have Keith Richards. Perfect.

Brian Sewell
Michael Winner
Golda Meir
Joan Rivers
Isabel Oakeshott
Dominic Cummins
Lyse Duocet
and of course Rufus Sewell

Martin Kemp
James Nesbitt
Chris Ewbank
Matt Williams ( the lovely jolly sports guy from the much missed Simon Mayo Drivetime Show)
Jo Whiley
Sarah Ferguson
Prue Leith ( don't care if she's a great cook)

I don't want educating, I just want a really funny entertaining evening and I think I'd get it with this lot.

paperbackwriter did you ever hear Keef on Desert Island Discs? It was wonderful, he came across as genuine, with a huge love for his family, his Mother and grandparents in particular. And his laugh.......

PS Id really love to have George Clooney too but mustn't be greedy.

Alan Bennett
Mary Beard
Stephen Fry
Simon Rattle
Angela Merkel

A few of these choices made me glad I wasn't on the guest list for certain parties.

Not a dinner party but when my daughter tried to force me into a 65th Birthday party I finally gave in.Only if she could get Paolo Nutini and Eric Bibb to perform at it ,result .We had a lovely family dinner insteadc

I hesitate to say this but I don't know who Rufus Sewell is (ducks!)

Lulu, Twiggy, Mary Quant, Cathy McGowen, Steve Marriott, Andy Fairweatherlow so we can all reminisce and relive the sixties.

Rufus Sewell is an actor with what my mum would have called ‘come to bed eyes’. No more need be said .

I'd invite Nigella Lawson (she can cook) and George Orwell.
Can I have Jane Austen and Ghandi too?
Philip Pullman and perhaps Ewan McGregor.
And my mum. She gave lovely dinner parties.

Janet Street Porter
Hand off David Essex he's mine. Gorgeous looks
Peter Kay
Steve and Jeanie Green from The Yorkshire Vet. I love this couple.
Nigel Farage
Paul O'Grady
Michael Barrymore
Alan Shearer, Cor! He could put his boots under my bed any day.
Carol McGiffin
Robert Peston
Jeff Hordley, Emmerdale's Cain Dingle

I’ll join the queue for Rufus Sewell too! Gosh, he’ll be worn out ?

Adam Faith
Andrew Neil
Pam Ayres
Terry Wogan
Germaine Greer

Richard E. Grant
Jodie Comer
Margaret Thatcher
Prince
Russell Brand
Michael McIntyre
Jeremy Meeks

Billy Connolly
Stephen King (American author)
Idris Elba
Barack Obama

Michelle Obama
Hilary Mantell (historian)
Val McDermid
Maggie Smith

If still alive
Sidney Potier ( American actor)
Richard Burton
Princess Diana
Victoria Wood

Terry Wogan
Dave Allen
Val Doonican
Elvis Presley
Billie Jo Spears
Jane MacDonald
Marty Wilde
Val McDermid