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

I agree with your list. I'd invite JC too then lock him in my attic so the Labour Party could get on and choose an actual opposition leader - who could LEAD and OPPOSE

OK kittylester you can have him for the mains, I'll have him for dessert.

Steve Balldini (Keeping Faith)
Jackson Brodie (Kate Jackson novels)
Mrs Doubtfire (aka Robin Williams RIP)
Mr Darcy
Nanny McFee (aka climate change hypocrite)
And me of course..... (I am really a stunningly beautiful multi millionaire)

I would invite the queen then probably just look at her the whole of the evening. I think she's amazing.

Sir David Attenborough, Cathy Bates. Konnie Huq and Christopher Plummer

PS, I`m another who hadn`t a clue about Rufus Sewell!

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

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

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

Adam Faith
Andrew Neil
Pam Ayres
Terry Wogan
Germaine Greer

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

Alan Bennett
Mary Beard
Stephen Fry
Simon Rattle
Angela Merkel

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

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.......

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.

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

I'd just have Keith Richards. Perfect.

Leonard Cohen
Er..........that’s it.