You won’t BELIEVE what they tell me!

People keep coming up to me and saying ‘Sir Jonny’ and then they quickly change it to ‘sooo Jonny’. If I had a penny for every time that happened, I’d be a wealthy man. I smile and let them think they’re being funny. A permatanned, though not very

wealthy, Jonny Wilkinson tells me at The Rugby Writers Dinner

that he’s still reeling from reports that he was nominated for a New Year’s honour.... even

though he wasn’t. Awkward. People fought so hard to give you that vote so why should you then go and waste it just because some badly dressed comedian, who happens to be popular, is telling you to do so?

Anita Anand, author of Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary, tells me she is not a fan of

Russell Brand. I have to sell myself to people... Not in that way! Alexa Chung, pictured right,

was keen to point out that

though her new Alexa AG jeans can be bought, she

can’t be! I know as a singer I’m not supposed to smoke, but it helps my voice. It does give me a deeper, huskier sound. It’s sexier.

Ellie Goulding

lets me in on her dirty little smoking

secret. Adele would be envious – she’s been banned

from smoking by her doctors, after being told she won’t be able

to sing again if she keeps it up. From Spurs to Southbank? It sounds like ex-footballer Sol Campbell is looking to transfer to City Hall, after our chat at the Wallpaper design awards. I’ve been getting very involved in politics so people started talking about me running as a Tory MP but I can see myself more easily running for Mayor of London – then you’re really the man of the people.