Orange Girl World

Okay, I admit have yet to meet Simon Schama, but he has definitely jumped to the top of my celebrities-I-want-to-be-friends with list.  So far, this list also includes Jarvis Cocker. 

Now Simon Schama is a brilliant television presenter and knows tons about art and history, but why do I want to be his friend?  It all steams from an interview he gave in this week’s Radio Times.  In the interview he is discussing his latest show for BBC4 on John Donne.  John Donne is one of the few poets that I actually like, and Schama apparently adores him, so this was a positive start.

Then Schama revealed his was asked to participate in Strictly Come Dancing and seriously considered it but declined because it was too much of a time commitment.  He also said that he would love to learn the tango.  I love Strictly Come Dancing and would like to be a celebrity simple so I could appear on the show.  Additionally, the dance I most want to learn is the tango.

Finally, the clincher in securing Simon Schama as my new celebrity BFF is the fact that he can’t do sudoku.  I can’t either!  I always thought of myself as a bit of a dunce because of it, but I feel so much better knowing that someone as mega-smart as Simon Schama can’t do them either.

I think this could be the basis of a beautiful friendship.  There is so much we could do together: he could tell me important stuff about history and art and John Donne, we could have tango lessons and not do sudoku.  Oh, what larks!