Which famous person would you love as your best friend?

TheMaggiejane1

Victoria Coren always seems fascinating to me - really funny and intelligent and an expert poker player of all things. I’d also be more than happy if she brought her husband along as well!

I bet their dinner parties (if they give them) are the stuff of legend…

Sandi Toksvig looks like she could be fun and if she’s available Dawn French would be on my list too. I’d also quite like to chat with Dermot Murnaghan.

M0nica

My best friend and I have known each other since we were 13. No one, famous or not, will ever supplant her in my affections.

I don't think you have to give up your current friends. And this thread is probably not that serious either.

I know it is not serious, but somehow it sets my teeth on edge.

M0nica

I know it is not serious, but somehow it sets my teeth on edge.

Why ever?

I know, I just saw it as a light-hearted "what if" kind of thread. Why would it set your teeth on edge?

Simon Reeves and Ben Fogle. They both seem such really lovely blokes and I'd love hearing first hand of their adventures all over the world.

James Martin.seems a lovely genuine man.

If he was still with us,Roy Orbison, under the polished stage persona he was a sweet kind caring funny man,

David Attenborough

Artaylar

Simon Reeves and Ben Fogle. They both seem such really lovely blokes and I'd love hearing first hand of their adventures all over the world.

Yes, but I always look at them and think "You'd make a lovely SIL".

I must be getting old!

If I can have a dead person (if you see what I mean) then I'd pick Peter Ustinov - funny and clever, a brilliant actor, pianist and raconteur; time spent with him would be a glorious pot-pourri of laughter and spellbinding tales.