Any excuse for a party.

I do love Vanessa Feltz. Highly intelligent, hugely exuberant and boy does she love a party. Some of the most lavish bashes I’ve ever been to have been at her house in St. John’s Wood and I’m going to another one tonight. Vanessa is celebrating her recent induction into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame and, generous to a fault, will be sharing her joy with a couple of hundred guests. I’m delighted to be going along partly because I have no idea who else will be there. At one of Vanessa’s parties, I met Petula Clark. At another, Liza Minelli. So it wouldn’t surprise me tonight if I find myself enjoying a vol-au-vent with Shirley Bassey.