Whenever you read or hear interviews people are always asked if you could have the perfect dinner party who would you invite living or dead. Well, i decided it was time to turn this into a feature but we are making it one step bigger – The perfect Extravagant Dinner Party, I will not just be picking the people I would want to have dinner with but the chefs and the entertainment as well!

I have given myself some ground rules – there are only 9 places available at the table to join me and there has to be a chef to represent each course and there should be only 4 acts allowed to provide acts allowed to provide entertainment.
At the table already is Donald O’Connor, and musician Tom Delonge and NHL star Marty St. Louis, Charlie Chaplin, animator Peter Lord, Rik Mayall and Bear Grylls and Steve Carrell. Let’s see who the last guest is.

Dinner Guest 9 – Arthur Conan Doyle

I only decided to read the Sherlock Holmes books last year. It was a little long time coming but was something that never came around. Then I really got into Sherlock and it still didn’t happen. It was only when I lived near a really good library that I decided it was time to read the Sherlock Books.

When I started reading them I became addicted and really enjoyed the stories as they were so well written that it was really hard to put down. It was Also great to see where parts had been altered or developed for television.

I think it would be good to have him at a dinner party as it would be really interesting to see from first person perspective how he came up with Sherlock, other stories in the pipeline and what he thinks of adaptions of his tales.

One of my favourite books he wrote was the short story, The Dying Detective which got transformed into the Lying Detective for the BBC television show. It was such a great short story originally and whilst the television version had a lot of mixed reviews I really enjoyed how they made the tale modern. A lot of people didn’t understand it, but from reading the original story I was fascinated by it and no-one understood why. I would love to see what My Doyle thought on things like this. That is why I would want him as a dinner guest.