So, you are banished to a desert island. You may take 5 men with you ........ to while away those long tropical days and nights

[suzywong]

.... I know this has been done umpteen times before but indulge me. Who would you take and why

I would take:

1. My boyfriend Johnny Depp -allroudn entertainer and mind-taker-offerer
2. Dave Grohl - musical accompaniement and he f*&in ROCKS
3. Anthony Bourdain - cooks up a storma likes an after dinner port and cigar
4. Dom Joly or Jack Dee, can't really call it - I like a laugh
5. Extraordinarily fit and lithe and young surfer I happened to catch out of the corner of my eye at the beach today while I was making sandcastles with the FBs and he was getting out of his wetsuit - eye-candy and may be usefull in fashioning bivouacs and shimmying up coconut trees.

and yours?

Oooo yeah, Dave & Goran, mmmmmmm...damn, should have had them on my list!!!!

Alex James (phwoooar)
Noel Gallagher (laughs)
Jamie Campbell (fit younger version of Paxo)
Hugh Fearnely Wearnly (cooking/chicken slaughtering)
Morrissey (because he's hilarious and "probably" a gay)

Can I only bring 5?

There are some fab suggestions on here, I'm going to have to borrow a few because I can't resist.

1. Bill Granger - because I like his food
2. Bill Bailey - to keep me amused (although if it got confusing to have two Bills I would consider Eddie Izzard instead)
3. Hugh Jackman - extreme eye candy
4. Bob Flowerdew - a bit creepy but he can grow the food, he can live on the other side of the island from me
5. An unknown man who can be a personal trainer, hairdresser and beauty therapist so that Hugh Jackman doesn't lose interest

Win Bulter (Arcade Fire - ding dong, like his politics)

Neil Young - ditto, less of the ding dong nowadays

Ian Brown - scally probably with drugs.

Dylan Moran - ding dong and funny with it.

Ross Noble - more funny than ding dong.

Shallow or wot?

Do they have to be useful or can they just be for sex? If the latter:

1. Johnny Depp
2. Alastair Campbell (sorry)
3. Owen Wilson or Josh Holloway
4. David Tennant
5. David Beckham

I'll have to think about useful but yes, Anthony Boudain would be in there for cooking. He might do good sex too I reckon, he's got a dirty look in his eye. Or maybe Hugh FW for foraging, although bet he doesn't do it as well off camera. Someone hard, to protect me too, will have to think about that.

1: Johnny Depp. And he can bring some rum! (I know, I know, it's getting a little boring now, eh?)
2: Ray Mears (cute survival expert)
3: Benedict Allen - seriously sexy explorer type and survival expert
4: Jason Isaacs (Mr Malfoy) for when I'd worn Johnny out with my unreasonable sexual demands
5: David Bowie - for a bitofa sing-song round the ol' camp fire to take me mind of themonkey bollock kebabs. Again...

All together now ''Let the children booogie, let all the children boogay. Nah nah nah na naaah...'''

lol at Cilit Bang man Rocklover

are you sure we can't bring dh's?

mine is a v good cook and is at this moment in time mopping the kitchen so can clean our cave/shelter/whatever

I would send him foraging for stuff on the other side of the island when Daniel Craig needed 'assistance'

1. Eric Cantona to read crap poetry and make French dirty love to me

2. Rod Stewart to sing dirty songs to me and make Scottish dirty love to me

[Eric Cantona chatted me up (translation: spoke to me) once in a tapas bar - factoid]

will you all stop putting Daniel Craig down, he is MINE ALL MINE

oh yes Roy Keane

hubba hubba

okeydokey...

John Cusak
Edward Norton
Tobey Maguire
Dylan Moran
David Tennant

(can you see a 'type' here...?)

Don't have to do anything remotely useful. Just have them on a sex rota.

I want them all fighting over me.

OliveOil you have just replaced Joolstoo as my bestest ever mumsnetter and I need to meet you so I can breathe the same air as you

I once had this conversation with a woman who wanted to be stranded with 'the voice of Richard Burton'. I thought she may as well have the rest of him as she was stuck on an island.

I'm with Califrau. There'd definately be a gay man on my list....just haven't decided which one yet....

1. Jake Gyllenhaal
2. Clive Owen
3. Joaquin Phoenix
4. Alan Rickman
5. Would be either Stephen Fry/John Barrowman or Graham Norton I think...

My cat looks like richard burton

JOhn Cusack (obviously)
Ioan Gruffudd (dressed as Hornblower please. So pretty)
Dylan Moran (yummy, but also funny AND grumpy - I will be grumpy in all that sun with no TV so I need someone to moan with)
Bill Bailey (funny, and we can have a sing song, he can bring his guitar)
Julian Clary (I'll need a good bitch and who better?)

1)Taye Diggs
2)Clive Owen
3)Jamie Foxx
4)Tyson Beckford
5)Gary Dourdan

Why can I only take 5? I want Justin and several others........... can I take more SuzyFloozy or do I have to tell you what me and your boyfriend were up to last night?

Oy, Marsy, Clive is already on my desert island I think you'll find .

What happened to the low carb ldc that Strawb commissioned?

Too many babies being born. But fret not it's the summer holidays. The time of experimentation.

Oh and I think that my love for the gorgeous Clive, plus drinking in the same coffee shop as him and living in the nearby vicinity gives me better odds at having him............................... on my island than you! [raspberry emoticon]

How long have you adored him? Huh? Huh? I adored him way before mega-stardom hit.