Yes, you might wonder how I happen to have this rarest of things? Well, I was sent a press sample that was destined to go off for photography for a publication that never happened (long story) and so instead of hanging onto it, I thought I’d do a very quick give-away on it because I know there was an issue with stock and I have plenty of beauty products here already. It was Benefit’s first time at an Advent Calendar and they totally underestimated demand – it was a major learning curve for them and I know they’ve taken lessons from it. The Calendar is still in immaculate condition and un-opened.
The give-away is as simple and quick as I can make it: you don’t need to follow, like, jump through hoops or bend over backwards – just answer this question in the comment box on the post with your Twitter name. Who Would You Like As A Guest At The Christmas Dinner Table? They can be famous, not famous, living or not living, and Benefit will choose the answer they like best. (If you don’t have Twitter, you can email me at Britishbeautyblogger@gmail.com
This is a UK only give-away and ends at 4pm Tuesday 5th November. NOW CLOSED
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299 comments
Lord Byron, he would have some scandalous tales to tell over dinner! (jasmin_daschund)
Grace Kelly – effortlessly gorgeous and I’m sure she’d have lots of great stories to tell! x
My Golden Retriever Winston. A bit weird but he passed away on the weekend and I loved that dog very much! He also rather enjoyed a bit of turkey. (@lippyinlondon)
I’d have to pick Alan Carr. I love watching his Chatty Man show, and can imagine him to be even funnier with a few wines down him! Plus my Mum loves him so he’d go down nicely with everyone!
@ceejayell_
Coco Chanel. I think it would be amazing to pick her brain!
Hugh Laurie…I can’t help it, he’s my inappropriate older man crush :-s (slightly embarrassed now lol) I’m a sucker for a man who can play piano like that and we’ve any luck he’d bring his bestie Stephen Fry along as his plus one!
@MushaBlog
My big brother Ben. He lives in America and I haven’t spent Xmas with him since 2009. @theladytheblog
Cleopatra to big her beauty brains – so many of the makeup women wear now came from her…also the whole marrying her brother thing..Twitter @wonderlusting_
Dave Grohl ….. Sexy, hilarious and can carry a tune.
i would like the cast of Mrs Brown`s Boys, what a brilliant laugh that would be 😉
my twitter name is @murtle42
Santa Claus, I figure he would need a rest after the previous night’s shift!
My mum. I’ve not had Christmas with my parents in over 10 years from living so far apart
Forgot to add my twitter ID @kellykoya
I would love to meet Jean and Jane Ford who created benefit cosmetics ! Who else’s could give you the best advice about there products and the rise of the wonderful brand !
I forgot I’m @missljbeauty on twitter 😉
My dream dinner guest would be my Dad’s father (so basically my Grandad). He died before I was born and everyone says that we would have got along so so well. But unfortunately that will never happen. (Twitter name: @Linds_coco ).
It would have to be the beautiful Marilyn Monroe. I have a million and one questions I’d love to ask her and it would be great to see the real her.
Going to go with a classic Marilyn Monroe, just want to know how she looks so flawless and what lipstick she uses as it doesn’t look like it would transfer onto food!
@LucyMayPebble
Leonardo do Caprio not my type but brilliant actor 🙂
@AnnaCardiff
Di Caprio of course
It’d have to be Britney Spears. It’s no secret that I’ve been obsessed with her for 15 years so it’d be my dream to finally meet her properly. Despite the fact that she’s been plastered all over the tabloids for over a decade, she’s such a mysterious character and we only really know what the press want us to know about her. In interviews and meet & greets, she comes across as the sweetest, most down to Earth celebrity out there and I believe Christmas dinner with such a homebody would be incredibly relaxed and fabulous!
@bamboozlebeauty
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I would have Christmas dinner with all the family..everyone including aunts uncles and cousins both alive and those who have sadly passed! One loud fun dinner for everyone 🙂
twitter @missjenny09
Prince Harry, I reckon he’d be rather an interesting and not bad to look at! I could imagine an alcoholic beverage or two would be encouraged too!
@sammi_donnelly
I’m not sure if this is allowed, you said not living, my answer is actually fictional…so technically not living…
I would love to have Christian Grey as my dinner guest because I a in love with him 🙂
If that doesn’t count then it has to be E.L. James the author of city shades of grey as I think she is an inspiration.
@Cherrystar3
Princess Diana. I’d love to hear all the stories she would of had to tell. @worriedmum46
John Barrowman, I’m pretty sure that my take on a Christmas Dinner could make him bat for the other side 😉
Emma Stone. Would talk fashion, beauty, movies and totally fangirl all over her while chowing down on some roasties 🙂 @reallyreeley
I would love to have Mary berry at the table!
My twitter is @coleoftheball
coleoftheballl33.blogspot.co.uk xx
Ooops, Twitter name @Barnabysue
Jennifer Lawrence, she’s beautiful and so down to earth, i’m sure she’d be cracking jokes and making the entire dinner a lot of fun. Could also quiz her on her beauty routine, she always looks so effortless!
@emilyking1
Morgan Freeman…such a cool guy whose voice I could listen to all day. And post dinner charades would be brilliant with him around! (@CeriLynn)
I’d love to have Miranda Hart, she’s just brilliant isn’t she?
My twitter is @Lolly_Lou_
Princess Diana.
twitter @danuska66
I want to have my husband at the table, first time in 9 years marriage that we will spend xmas together in our home.
@SabineCornic
At first I tried to think of someone effortlessly glamorous like one of my favourite 1950s movie stars but then I realised, the most glamorous and interesting women I ever knew was my Granny. She’s truly the only guest I would want at the Christmas dinner table.
Twitter name @agrlclldeleanor
Santa clause – it would be amazing to hear about all his tales and secrets from the North Pole! Of course mrs clause and the elves would need to come too 😉 @blurredbeauty
Buddy the elf from the film Elf – he loves Christmas so he’d be really excited, he’d be funny and he’d make us Christmas dinner out of candy and sugary stuff 🙂 (@Eramys)
I’d have Santa Claus at our table, after all he’s worked really hard so deserves a nice dinner! Plus, I would love to see my little boy’s face with Santa sat across the table 🙂
@mrspixelwife
Hilary Clinton, I find her so inspiring and I think having an educated powerful woman would make for a very interesting Christmas dinner. Twitter : RosalieCo
Oh wow! you are so so so lucky!!! I have dreams about having one of these but my Student loan STILL hasn’t come in, so I’m stuck on beans and soup!
Twitter is Laura_nice
Oh and i got so excited by the comp i didn’t even answer your question :0
Who Would You Like As A Guest At The Christmas Dinner Table? But my Answer is my Grandma, at 85 she is the most amazing women i know.
I’d love to have my husbands dad at the Christmas table. He passed away 15 years ago before our wedding and we really miss him x
@LTbeautyblog
It would have to be Santa…that way I’d be guaranteed at least one present, and as he knows what everyone wants, I wouldn’t have to worry about asking for the receipt!
Doh! Twitter name @chatteringlaura
I would love to have Russell Brand for dinner, him and my sister could have a battle to see who is the wittiest! (@sairelou)
Jamie Oliver of course! Not as petrifying as Gordon but you’re destined to have an amazing meal, hilarious company, and he’s not at all hard on the eyes!
Twitter – @christiejegan
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Thank you!x
@alysonwalsh21. I would like to have had Audrey Hepburn round for Christmas dinner. I’m a huge fan of this amazing woman. A timeless beauty inside and out and I’m sure I could learn a lot from her.
@cheekychicken24 on Twitter
Kate Moss – she famously said ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ but I bet my Christmas Dinner with all the works would make her change her mind 😀
I would most definitely have Leonardo diCaprio, people always say that he lost his charm and looks as he grew older but I think it’s all the more handsome. It would also be a prime opportunity to introduce him to the family, y’know, before we get married 😉
@dinabobina_
If I could chose a fictional character, then Gandalf the Grey or Dr. Who.
If I had to chose a non-fictional character…. then… erm… I would have to go with my parents, because I miss them a lot and I’m not going to see them this year and it’ll be my first Christmas without them and it’ll be weird and strange and sad…. So yeah… 🙂
Twitter name @dustyfoxes and thank you for the giveaway!
Random things and Strange whims
My grandad who passed away before I was born @SaraColclough
I would love to have David Attenborough round for Christmas dinner because I love my natural history & I think I could learn so much from him! 🙂 Some one else would have to do dinner though as I’m a terrible cook! 🙂 @Madrabbitgirl
@kimhayton1
Kelly Clarkson x
I’d like to invite Josephine de Beauharnais- Napoleon’s lover and wife, who was praised for her style and elegance I think she would have a fantastic story to tell about how she managed to entice Napoleon despite being a widow with two children, whose husband was guillotined for treason. Her beauty secrets would keep us enthralled at the Christmas table.
@halkerstone
got to be the delightfully dishy James Martin, could he help out cooking as well lol
@_cathyj_
I would pick Brigitte Bardot. Her style encapsulates the 60s for me and is one of my style/beauty inspirations. I’d like to ask for all her beauty secrets!
@talesofpaleface x
I would like Confucius at my table so I could discuss all the things he is attributed with saying. @HeaherHaigh
It would have to be my granddad. He’s been gone for several years now but I still miss him a lot and every year he and my grandmother would come to stay at Christmas so Christmas day has never quite been the same since x
@lilblogofbeauty
Marilyn Manson: imagine the stories! And he seems like such a nice person in all his interviews. It’d be unbelieveable to meet him myself!
My Twitter is @superbeckyy and email is racotterell@hotmail.com!
Ellen degeneres!! @ailsa_bennett
I would have Paul Hollywood, someone good to look at and he can always help if I get flustered! @stresbringer
Ry doon, he’s so funny!! My twitter handle is @ailsa_bennett
I would love to have Ryan Reynolds at the table although I don’t thinkI would be able to concentrate on anything else!!
@purple_sparkle8
My dream dinner guest would be Marilyn Monroe,,,It would be an amazing opportunity to pick up her beauty tips! (@FoziaAkhtar1)
I’d love to have my dog Archie, we lost him in July and I still really miss him. I’d like to have one last xmas with him, I’d spoil him rotten with treats, pressies, hugs and tell him I love him lots
@bazzingapest
Jackie Kennedy because she was always flawless and she is still inspiring women today.
Twitter @lauzipop1
My Nannie. I would give anything to have one more christmas with her. It has never felt the same since she passed away when I was 11. I would love to have my best friend back at my Christmas table 🙂 @gorsty15
Emily Pankhurst – I think inviting her into our modern day world to reflect and see on how she helped to make such a difference would be the least we could do and it would be wonderful to hear her tell how she thought and fought and how she feels about the world today. I am sure she would love Benefit Makeup!
Twitter name @tabbaz123
Russell Howard because he would make me laugh and I think he is pretty hot! @metalmunki
Pocahontas! Of course. I find her facinating, potentially a feminist well ahead of her time, and after dinner I’d sit her down to watch the Disney movie, just to freak her out about what a mess they made of her “story”! Reckon she would have some serious hair care tips too! (@45h1eigh)
@hanaellistweet
Marilyn Monroe .. Predictable choice. But talented, beautiful, smart! The iconic eyeliner and red lip shows class and sophistication even today. A woman who was and still is a role model showing women no matter what size you are we are all incredible, beautiful beings! Night made!
I would like to have you over with the benebabes for dinner by way of a Thankyou for an awesome prize!!!! Twitter tag: 88joey88
stephen fry because he is so witty and knows so much. mo3733@hotmail.co.uk
Elizabeth Taylor. ..a real broad. Smart, sassy and those amazing eyes @gillcomer
My mum who died in 2005. Christmas has never been the same since. @drew692
jesus – would be one huge celebration 😉
beyonce
I would have Robin Williams because he would amuse everybody with impersonations of people and stories
Butterflywish_x
Alan Rickman! Just so I could listen to his voice all night… hmmmm…
@hunnycat
chris hemsworth.
he wouldn’t even have to say anything…just sit there 🙂 x
@Gilly_Manilli
Gok Wan would be a giggle @nettie1xoxo
I would love Will Young as a guest he is very entertaining and i love his voice
honestly, as long as I have all my family there and they are all healthy and happy then that is more precious to me than anything! But if I absolutely had to chose one person to come along to our Christmas dinner table it would have to be Marilyn Monroe right?! no reason needed for why I would want this beauty to be sat near me at Christmas time! (she might also share some beauty tips with me?!). This is a great giveaway and so generous of you! My twitter is lo_mccormick. Fingers crossed 🙂 xxx
Karl Largerfeld, he would crack anyone up over Christmas dinner… Dunno how my other half would take to him though!
@AlexandraLouW
@rozsarg
It would have to be Stephen Fry. I could listen to his fascinating tales for hours.
@jojomapp
It would have to be the George Clooney of the Kitchen, Mr Paul Hollywood!
In my lust, I mean rush to answer, I forgot my twitter name which is @JackieMONeill
I would love Santas Elves as (apparently) they work really hard! @angiesandhu
My lovely mum, she died in August 🙁 my twitter name is @zaraleen xxx
Would have to be, Ryan gosling… How perfect Christmas dinner and him…
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My perfect christmas guest would be Dean Martin, when we were all stuffed with turkey he could serenade us with ‘let it snow’ @missjenired
@lucyvtaylor.
I would invite my grandad. He died before I was born and I hear such wonderful stories about how funny and warm hearted he was. I think that would make it one hell of a Christmas!
Oh I’ve just got married … My twitter username is now @lucyvskerritt! Ooops!
Would have to be buzz light year as I think it would make my nephews day! 🙂 (if it has to be real life person then robbie williams because that would make my day lol) twitter name @hayjay1975 Great giveaway by the way thank you 🙂
My granny and granddad i would have loved for them to have met their great grandchildren
Sorry forgot my to add my twitter name @nettyfive
I’d love Tom Ford to be my guest, we could discuss Fashion, Perfume, Make-Up, his film ‘A Single Man’ and what the heckins He thinks He’s up to charging £650 for THAT brush set!
@decadentkitten
Michael Buble. He’d have many funny anecdotes to tell us during Christmas lunch, and then afterwards he could serenade us with some lovely festive tunes. Brilliant! @nathalie_rees
I’d love to have Mary berry at the dinner table, as long as she did all the cooking of course! (And dessert 😉 )
Twitter @badlaamb
Ryan Gosling, so I can gaze at him for hours! @saz_tweet
I would love to have Sharon Osbourne at my Christmas dinner table, I best she’s a right squeal when she’s had a sherry or 2 – Twitter Name @R_Gem_R
I’m sure lots of people would say this but I’d pick Stephen Fry – he’s endlessly interesting and I feel like we have lots of things in common and he could give me some good advice! I especially admire everything he does for mental health and with the Mind charity.
@hannahscuffham
I would invite Jane and Jean Ford so they can explain to me how my Benetint self replenises. I’ve had the same bottle for a very long time and its still a quarter full (not that I’m complaining!).
@missdckent
I would love it to be my twin sister as I haven’t seen her for ages and miss her 🙁 plus, she’s my fashion guru so hopefully would let me raid her wardrobe! @missTlemons
John Lydon from PIL…@cricrinapoli1
Kim & Aggie from the TV show ‘How Clean Is Your House?’
They could do the washing up afterwards. Cheeky – I know!
@violetcherry456
l would invite the oldest person in my town and ask how it was growing up there,
Ooops again, twitter name @dillyblueblue
I got married in July and still haven’t met my husbands big brother who lives in Germany, so i would love him to com for dinner and tell me lots of stories of when they were younger!
@louise1ch
I would love to have a Genie Lamp ON the table as a honorable guest!! Why? Because the genie granted me the wish to win this Benefit Countdown To Love Advent Calendar! 😉
@FjordBeauty
Hugh Laurie!
@hammahnator
I think i’d have the Queen, i’d love to see what she was like after a drink or two (or more haha) @kellbellwiseowl / kellyxox@hotmail.co.uk
Chris Martin from Coldplay @KatFalkingham
I would like to have Billy Connolly around the dinner table!
Twitter @teresathorne
@_miss_moss_
I’d love to share Christmas Dinner with this woman, Meliha Varesanovic, who was captured in an iconic photograph by Tom Stoddart in Sarajevo in 1995. She stares at the camera whilst striding down a street to work looking AMAZING, an armed soldier standing nearby. Her power and defiance, so clear in such a simple moment is amazing. I’ve added this picture to my ‘powerful pictures wall’ in my class so the girls can see her, and be inspired by her. Tom returned recently, found her and rephotographed her! (And she still looks proud and powerful 🙂
http://www.thisisthewhat.com/2012/05/tom-stoddart-women-of-sarajevo-revisited/
I think dinner with Mark Twain would be great fun- wit, writer inventor…
I thought for ages about famous people I’d like to meet (Sigmund Freud, if only to ask where his theories came from!) but it’s got to be my grandmother, it’s been over 10 years since she died and I’d love her to meet my children! I wish I’d spent more time talking to her when I could, she was a wonderful warm elegant lady with a real naughty streak!
Also (duh!) my Twitter is @rebeccajohns
Twitter name: @joanne258
I’d have the personal trainer Jessie Pavelka from the Sky one show Fat the Fight of my life. Not only is he gorgeous to look at but he can make sure I don’t gain weight from the dinner…..one more sausage wrapped in bacon? Don’t mind if I do 🙂
It’s got to be Edward Snowden, don’t you think? Because I’d love to hear everything they haven’t yet told us…. @martinimummy MM x
Morrissey. He could show me how to get the perfect quiff which is a lifelong ambition.
@goramstitches
Richard Ayoade – think it would be a funny night!
Ayrton Senna or Marilyn Monroe.
I would ask Marilyn what really happend and senna is just a legend
Twitter @laylafletcher
Channing Tatum, for obvious reasons 😉
If he declines my invite to christmas dinner (Sob) I’m sure a Benefit Countdown to love calender whith fill me with christmas cheer again
@jenny_newby
It’s Christmas!!!!!! So love them or hate them it has to be family
@batgirlwiz
@sarahjoelliott Alice from Alice in wonderland as I would love a glimpse of her magical world
Jeremy Scott … Just to see what shoes he would turn up in 🙂 @ameliaredhead1
Paul O’Grady he has such a dry sense of humour, even better if he came as Lilly Savage lol
@Minnibix
Oscar Wilds @conradedwards1
I’d like Zandra Rhodes at my Christmas dinner table. She’s so fabulous and colourful. I’d love to talk fashion, colour and art with her. So inspiring.
Johnny Depp – that would be the only Christmas gift I would ever need! 😉
Lena Dunham. I feel we’d be best friends and I think she’d be extra fun after a few Christmas drinks! @EmEmEmma
George Clooney – that way I wouldn’t overeat as usual as I would be drooling over him instead!!
Twitter name @carolvs1
@Turley51 Michael Buble purely for entertainment purposes 🙂
I would have to say my favourite musician, Frank Turner!
(@iamhardcore)
My son! And as he’s due to be born on Thursday it’s all looking good..xx @beautygeekuk
I would love to have Kylie & Kendall Jenner (I couldn’t pick just one haha!) They’re absolutely gorgeous! Twitter: @jocelyncoventry this giveaway is super sweet 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/user/thatssojocelyn x
I’d love one more Christmas dinner with my dad, he died in 2001 and I’d love him to meet my 10 year old daughter; he’d find her so much fun and she’d love his stories. Cath (@shehei)
I would love my daughter Amy at my Christmas dinner table. She was born asleep 9 years ago and I would do anything just to see her, hug her, kiss her, hear her laughing. She has a brother now too, wouldn’t it be wonderful to see them playing together. I miss her so much at Christmas, and all the time, but at Christmas I can’t help thinking there should be two stockings, and two excited children running into the room.
Miss you always baby girl xxxx
@zebedee01
I hate to give a sob story here but before I even finished reading the question I knew who I would pick. My dream guest this year would be my darling cat Balthazar who passed away earlier this year. It’ll be my first Christmas since I was a child without him and the thought of that is painful but I hope he will be looking down on us. He was a sweetheart and a joy. You can see him here 🙂 http://instagram.com/p/WVgOlhSrTR/ I can’t tell you what I would give to be with him one more time, even if it would be rather naughty having a pet at the dinner table!
@hollyarabella is my twitter handle. Really kind of you to give this away.
Frank Sinatra would be my dinner party guest of choice. I’d have him tell me all about his cool Rat Pack days with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis and we’d have a Scotch or two. Then, as the cherry on the Christmas Pud, he’d sing Mona Lisa to me and in would walk my dearly departed Grandad Butch…It was the song he used to sing to me when I was a girl. Lisa xx @ukglowology
It would have to be Noddy Holder just so I could get him to shout his classic line ‘It’s Christmaaaaas!’ Twitter name @therealloopyh
My maternal Grandfather. He was living with us when he had a stroke, went into hospital and died when I was 11 and I never got to say goodbye or tell him I loved him.
My 90 year old American grandmother – @snarepuss
Robert Pattinson.. just cos I fancy the pants of him ;-_
Twitter @LynseyWard
My twitter name is @Pumpkin2k9. Harry Potter – perhaps I could borrow his magic wand.
I would like Delia Smith so she could cook @carolinezcraftz
Rich Hall. He would simultaneously be the grumpiest person alive and make the whole table smile 🙂
@ S t a r l a b e a r (without spaces)
Jamie Oliver would be just pucker @bbdiva1977
He awesome cook and , seems a right good laugh and so down to earth im sure we have fun playing twister or such after lunch too
Would love Tom Hanks over for christmas dinner. @compingwren
Twitter name: @PhoebeMercer1
I would invite Marilyn Monroe to my Christmas dinner! Marilyn Monroe is such an icon and such a gorgeous, fashionable inspirational woman and I would love to listen to all her stories that she would tell and could/would love to be in her company for hours! I feel like I was born in the wrong era because of her and would have loved to of been around when Marilyn was!
It’s a tough call, either Stephen Fry or Brian Cox, both are geniuses and I could listen to them talk for hours. <3 Awesome giveaway! 🙂
@HellsBells_80
I would like to sit down and have dinner with hubby just once, @nataliefrench15
My best friend Ella who sadly passed when we were only 20 I would give anything to have her bright gorgeous smile across the dinner table if only for a few hours @chloefurze
oooh i think i would have to choose Tom Daley he’s legal now 😉 and oh i do so love to look at him lol
Bing Crosby – good old singalong after dinner sorted!
twitter name @tralingar
Matt Smith- imagine how amazing it would be to watch his last ever episode as doctor who with him! @cambridge_nails
Nelson Mandela, such an amazing inspirational man, with many stories to tell and probably someone I could learn a lot from 🙂
I would love to have a Mr Charlie Chaplin at the dinner table, there would never be a dull moment 🙂 (@nverseenb4)
Marilyn Monroe, I’d love to hear some of her beauty tips! (@grazza_ell)
I sat and racked my brains for a famous person to share the Christmas dinner table with, and to be honest the list is as longasmy arm. From Micheal Buble and Dave Matthews to theHairy Bikers and Jamie Oliver. To be 100% honest though if it was a anything is possible dream I would want to share my Christmas dinner table with my Grandad who we lost 5 years ago. I would make it the best dinner ever!
Twitter name @sammyscrubs. Xx
Will Smith as he’d keep up the Christmas cheer even after we’ve over eaten and had one too many brussel sprouts! Twitter @lzelli
I love all the benefit mini products, they are so sweet. Mini things are just so much better for some reason haha.
I’d love for my Aunt Shirley to be at my Christmas dinner this year. Sadly she passed away in June after a long illness. I miss her very much and would love another Christmas with her. She bought me my first Benefit product years ago (Dr. Feelgood I think) and I’ve never looked back!
If I can bring two people I’d also quite like Rod Stewart to serenade us all (I also fancy him a bit *cringe*)
@GlasgowBBlogger
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Debbie Harry from Blondie. Loved her style. Unfortunately I don’t have Twitter but thought I would comment for the fun of it 🙂 Xx
I think I would have to invite Derren Brown!
1. He’s clearly a super interesting and very funny man, so he’d no doubt be full of amazing, entertaining stories for around the dinner table.
2. Those tricks. Seriously. Best Christmas day entertainment you could possibly hope for!
3. Surely with his endless talent, he must have a trick up his sleeve to make the disgustingly gigantic pile of post-dinner dishes disappear into thin air? Failing that, he could hypnotise my fiance and children into doing them all quickly and quietly, while I pour myself a wine and eat my weight in Christmas chocolates. Thanks, Derren.
(Twitter name – @JamHeart_)
Julie Walters. She would have so many stories to tell. She’s also hilarious and and would be a tad misbehaved too. She would probably encourage us all to be silly, let our hair down and have a great time.
@tessjon101
Would have to be Father Christmas. He’s bound to be hungry after the busiest night of the year.
@maidincornwall
My Mother, my Nana, my Grandmother who has passed, their mothers, and their mothers 😀 To find out all about the women I’m made of and exchange life and beauty tips through the ages
@FamilyHistory1
love-ths-planet@live.co.uk
Marilyn Monroe – Elegant and classy with oodles of gossip too! @cluckyhen0
Stephen Fry! He’s brilliant and I’m sure he’d have some great insights. I doubt we’d run out of things to talk about.
My twitter name is linelh86 🙂
Would have to be Stephen Fry simply because he would make it the most interesting dinner party
@petegilb2
I would choose Benedict Cumberbatch. I have loved him for ages – it would be a dream come true 😀 (@LaraElizabethJ)
Frances Quinn, in the hope that she might also create something spectacular for Christmas dinner! @yesihaveablog
I would love to have Gary Barlow at the table for Christmas and then we could have a good old sing-song afterwards (@tonkatol)
James Hunt something so rakish and naughty about him
oops forgot @helenthemadex
I emailed you my answer but I don’t know if I need to write it here too??
“My Christmas Dinner guest would be Ivy, the kitchen maid from Downton Abbey, because she could help me to cook and then do all the washing up afterwards!”
My boyfriend. He’s going to Seattle with his family this year, and I won’t get to see him for Christmas or New Years. Was hoping to introduce him to my family since we’ve been together for a few years now, but I guess that will have to wait…
@JennyFisher44
I would have to have my youngest little boy. Although it is him who has given me the dark circles, wrinkles, dry skin and thinning hair, he is always making me pretend cups of tea in his play kitchen to “make mummy feel better” when I’m too busy to look after myself. 😡 It would be brilliant to return the favour by having him to a proper dinner party, rather than just you eat while Mummy gets on with work!
@WShippam
It would have to be Ryan Gosling, just too yummy not to have christmas dinner with!
@AndreaRutt
I would love to have Jamie Oliver at the dinner table, mainly to cook Christmas dinner!
@minkymoo5
Ellen degeneres!! Shes just too great (@ailsa_bennett)
Stephen Fry although I would be in awe of his wit and intellect- a modern day Oscar Wilde.
@flashquacks
I would love to have Tanya burr at my dinner table! I’ve decided to become a makeup artist and am currently saving up money for a course! I recently met her at the Benefit meet up and asked for her advise but I would so take advantage of seeing her again and ask her every makeup question under the sun!!! @jamielidentith
Shu Uemura, an incredible make up artist who would bring creativity, beauty and individuality to the dinner. @distancedieters
I’d love to have Dermot O’Leary at my xmas dinner table. I think he would get on really well with everyone, we could get the x factor gossip from him and if we get a bit upset at the last Matt Smith Dr Who episode I could have one of his famous cuddles!
@PicnikPie
Isabella Blow, to swap stories, hats and fashion gossip with. Tweet me: Tinkerbell_Xx
Holly Willoughby, I would wow her with my cooking skills and sparkling wit and she will INSTANTLY want to be my new glam best friend!! @katyspence
I’d like Father Christmas as I think he deserves a treat after all his hard work and my children would always believe in him then.
The one, the only Peter Kay. Though we’d have to shush him when we were eating otherwise the food would go cold with all the laughter! My nanny June loves him too so it’s win win
@MissEmmaBotham
I’d probably choose Marilyn Monroe, a very charismatic lady with some fascinating and scandalous stories to tell.
@Deeceeha
I wish I knew his name, but sadly I don’t, but (thankfully) there was a lovely old man who saved me from drowning when I was free. His face was the last I saw before things went black and the first I saw moments later when I came round again after he had pulled me out of the pool and performed CPR. That’s all I can remember, and I would love the opportunity to say thank you to him for saving my life all those years ago! Twitter name: @hobbithands
stephen fry……he just knows everything<3
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My fabulous grandma who passed away 8 years ago. She taught me it was important to be beautiful both inside and out! 🙂
It would have to be my Aunt, she passed away very suddenly and I miss her everyday, to share one last meal with her to say the goodbye I never got to say would be amazing. @rachelheap
I’d have dinner with myself 10 years ago. I’d tell her to quit stressing the small stuff, have conviction in her actions and enjoy herself
@DBAWaffle
I would love to have David Tennant at my dinner table because I think he is an amazing actor and really funny! I also think he’d have loads of good stories to tell! {@emma_templeton}
Audrey Hepburn! The ultimate classy gal!
I pity whoever has to read through all of these to decide on a winner!
I’d have to pick my fiance’s daughter, Skye – She always has Christmas with her mum so it would make my fiance’s Christmas to have her with us after four years of not having her on the day (she’s six now). Plus our living arrangements are all squiffy at the moment and her disabilities mean it’s harder to find somewhere for her to sleep where we live now so my son and I don’t see her much and we’d love to see her more. Also she Loves her food so she’d help with the too much food we’ll have and I’d love to see her open her gifts. She’s such a sweet loving girl so she’d make all of our Christmas’ even better 🙂
@petitmoi_laura
My mum, because even though I spend every Christmas with her, this year has been especially hard. I just want to sit with her and tell her how much I love her and appreciate everything she does for me and everyone else.
@nerdality
Morgan Freeman. His voice is as smooth as a Baileys. I think he’d fit in really well with the family and in the neighbourhood when I take him out for a walk after the Christmas dinner has settled. He seems like such a genuine, down to earth guy who likes to laugh.
Reckon he would bust a few moves in the local 🙂
I’d also cheekily ask him if he would recite his lines as Red in the Shawshank Redemption when he had his last parole hearing.
@AtomicJ08
Robert Pattinson because he’s fine-one-one! I’d love to look into those big beautiful eyes to see if they’re real and I’m pretty sure it would be love at first shine… Hopefully it wouldn’t take long for him to realise I’m a Benebabe BADgal who’s some kind of gorgeous and primed for lovin’! Then he’d whisk my away to LA for some California kissin’ in the winter sun. He’d be my Dr. Feelgood for sure. *SWOON*
It would have to be my all my grandparents, I just love to listen to all the stories from when they were younger about how different things were for them years ago! Plus they are just great people to be around :). @thebeautybow
Taylor Launtner (shirtless) so me and my girlfriend can admire the view LOL 😛
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I Would have to have Lee Evan’s round for dinner ( @hm_mulgrove ) or mulgrove29@gmail.com
Alice cooper ,so we could rock out to 80s classics and talk serious eye makeup! And deffo not Sammy mercer as she gave me too many cocktails meaning I was tooo hungover to make it to benefit on time on Saturday!
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Charlotte xx
Great post and great giveaway! (:
Oh that’s easy Derren Brown ….Stylish, amusing, entertaining and mind boggling …the perfect mix in a Christmas guest xxx @marjoleine72
Marilyn Monroe so I could see her without makeup, and then watch her apply her makeup and see what products she would have used, and which brands! xx
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Honestly just my boyfriend, we’re doing the long distance thing and it’s especially sucky during the winter months when you just want to be cosy and cuddle. Also, he’s a proper gent and would let me eat all the pigs in blankets! @aimeehorror
Jamie Oliver but he wouldn’t be sitting he would be cooking haha
My grandpa. He passed away a few months ago. @fanig
My grandad – he hasn’t spent Christmas with is in 5 years as he passed away 5 years ago, and we all miss him so much and we always used to have huge family christmases but now because of divorces and deaths, its getting smaller
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Oliver Reed, dressed as Santa. Takes no explaining. @_jamboree
I would like to have dinner with Gordon Ramsey
@007bambam
Emma Watson – I adore her and I think she’d actually be a lot of fun to hang out with on Christmas (thegirlinspired)
I’d like to have dinner with Graham Norton – he’s funny and entertaining on the radio and TV and I bet he’s got plenty of gossip to keep us entertained
@debwh142
I would invite Jason Momoa, as he’s my all time man crush, and I’d quite like him for dessert. @justmeleah_blog
Audrey Hepburn
My mum, she passed away 13 years ago and it would be nice to have a good long gossip, lots of food and a piece of her homemade christmas cake @denisec1484
I think my answer would have to be my Dad who died 7 years ago. I know it’s a bit morbid, but I would love for him to meet his grandson,(my little boy) and see me settled and happy, it would be the best Christmas ever! 🙂
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Agatha Christie – I’d love to get the chance to find out why her brains worked in the way it did
Dynamo, I think he is amazing – it’s not just magic – he’s working with energy in the quantum field!
@mjjyie
I would love to have the chance to have had Marilyn Monroe round for Christmas,I’ve been a fan of her’s for many years and she was the ultimate in 1950’s glamour,I think she would have been loads of fun to have round at Christmas. Twitter name :- @Amanda_Louise78
Charles Dickens. I’d make him watch ‘a Muppets Christmas Carol’. Xmas ain’t xmas without a little Dickens. X
Billy Bob Thornton. In his Bad Santa suit. That is all. #shallow_as_a_puddle @jaqcassidy
I’d invite the Easter bunny, because he must feel a bit neglected this time of year. Who doesn’t love a bunny?! And he could eat all my carrots. (@love_la_boheme)
I’d love to have dinner with Marilyn Monroe…. I’d sit there mesmerized by her stories… And cheekily ask her for beauty tips 🙂
@itsmejennytree
My Mum, I miss her every single day <3
@smeethsays
Fab giveaway! I would love to have Freddie Mercury at my Christmas dinner table; I imagine he’d be a right laugh, loads of great stories to tell and he’d lead the carol singing a treat 😛 (my Twitter handle is ironic_sparkles!) xx
Dave Grohl for obvious reasons 😉
@girlybags
James Stewart – who else?
My family back in Canada. I haven’t had a Christmas with them in over a decade.
@AlisonH_
OK mine is a film character, I would love Buddy the Elf to come to Christmas dinner as I love is childlike Christmas spirit. As my hubby hates Christmas I need as much help with Christmas spirit!!
@kerryberry1977
I would love to have dinner with my Grandfather whom I never met, as my mum tells me we are so alike. Sadly he died long before I was born x
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Mama Cass. She challenged the establishment with her unconventional beauty , and who could resist a singing voice as rich as hers? @bridgetburnett7
I’d love to meet Hedy Lamarr, as she was the perfect equation: brains + beauty. At the time when attractive women were meant to be merely ornamental, she not only forged a successful career in acting, but also became an inventor. How she found the time to get married five times, I do not know:-) I imagine she liked make-up and she certainly used it well, so we could talk about it, but I’m sure she would have something interesting to say on any topic.
@StilettoLady
Actually, I just double -checked and she got married 6 times!
My dinner guest would have to be Beyonce, shes such a beautiful talented woman, very inspiring plus she could entertain us! @amyedwards5468
My Dad, as I never got to meet him before he died. It would be nice to just be able to chat and have him meet my family.
@cristalfiona
victoria beckham, not only is she so stylish but would love to talk to her and see her smile, would love to see what shes like in person as in magazines she always looks so miserable and she needs a good meal in her too x
I’d have Kirsty McColl – such talent and taken too soon, and the perfect excuse to go to Christmas karaoke in the evening!
@essexgal65
Helen Mirren. She’d be sure to hit the eggnog early, and tell lots of uproarious stories over the turkey! @keegys
James Mason – for his voice @StoodlesCom
I would choose Lisa Eldridge because she is one of my favourite make up artists as well as being a lovely person! @rhiannenh
David Beckham!!! Mmmm Mmmm Mmm!
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Nat King Cole – for the perfect after dinner sing-along around the tree
@Ms_Malaprop
(@emilycoulton) for me it would have to be Hugh Grant, as I’d love for him to re-enact the ‘Jump For My Love’ dance scene from Love Actually for me! 🙂 xx
I have to say Josephine Baker – a woman who has always intrigued me and the epitome of someone born either before her time or just totally and properly awesome!
Baker fought racial segregation in the US, moved to France and assisted the French Resistance, was a muse to writers like F Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway….not to mention the movies, the dancing, and the singing.
She would have some incredible stories to tell. Plus maybe could be persuaded to lead a sing along and knees up after pudding.
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David Niven – I am reading his biography just now and he is very entertaining. I’m positive he would keep the witty conversation flowing, make everyone laugh and I’d love to hear more about the glamorous golden era in hollywood.
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I would love to have Doctor Who at my dinner table, Christmas would be neverending with all the adventures! @ane_356
Marilyn Monroe, I think there is more to her then we all know! @JJR0308 🙂 xx
Paul Hollywood, because he would see my botched attempt at making Christmas dinner and offer to cook instead!! 😉 @Aimeeloouu
Lady Gaga, She’s been a HUGE inspiration to me, writing & creating my own art and learning to be myself. I’d want to thank her AND see what the hell she’d turn up wearing!!! @JanBeautyful
@sram3280 I would like to take George RR Martin(A Song of Ice and Fire)to dinner to pick his brains on how he writes what he writes and possibly to get the plot for the series 🙂
Alan Carr as we’d have a right giggle!
I would love to have Derren Brown round my Christmas dinner table it would be an amazing experience, so fascinating and one the whole family would never forget. My two children would be amazed with his tricks and find it so funny! It would be a magical christmas.
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Miranda Hart as she’d keep us all entertained, and my mishaps would go unnoticed alongside her. @flossiecrossie
I would to say Audrey Hepburn, can you imagine the stories she would have to tell and i could endlessly listen to any beauty advice she would have to give xx
I would love to have Angelina Jolie as a guest as she is fascinating and enigmatic and if she brought along Brad Pitt that would be a nice bonus. @LeighleeGB
Marilyn Munroe. I bet she’d have some exciting stories to tell! Certainly would make our Christmas Day a little more exciting xx
I would pick Charles Dickens as he was by most accounts a great raconteur, was handy at making a cocktail or two and could recite a Christmas story after dinner. He loved reciting and acting out his stories to people apparently.
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I would love to have Frank Spencer…yes he’d probably get me turkey stuck on his head and fall through my loft hatch somehow, but it would then mean I would have some entertainment at Christmas as telly is rubbish on Christmas day! 😉 OOOH BETTY!
I would have to say Hugh Laurie, I usually don’t like medical dramas but House is an amazing show, and he is such a multi-talented guy so there would never be a dull moment! (xCupCakeKittehx)
Joan Rivers. She’s hilarious and frank and is bound to have enough stories to entertain well into the early hours! @tashasface
My dad, he died in 1993 and I still miss him so much, he loved christmas and to spend one more day with him would be amazing 🙂 @leighby
Brigitte Bardot as I believe that her iconic look epitomises Benefit’s retro glamour.xoxo
@rayofglitter
I have to be soppy and cheat a little but it would be my two Grandads. Both passed away before I met my now Husband. I think they would have all got on really well. It’s a shame they never got to meet.
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Hey lovely,
I would invite the Australian highway man Ned Kelly. I know it’s completely strange because who wouldn’t want Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley or Audrey Hepburn at their table? I totally would but if limited to one person it would be good old Ned, I’m actually related to him on my dad’s side which is why I would choose him. I surname was as ‘Kelly’ from that lineage before I got married and I’ve always wondered if he carried any of the same similarities as my dad and uncles, grandad etc.. I’d also love to have gotten into his head, find out why he became a highway. It would make for interesting convo’s I know that.
Best Wishes,
Elyse Silver @sweetelyseuk
Oh, i would say Dita von teese. I would make the whole xmas event in old classic style and ask her for all her make up secrets and style advice. She seems so sweet and down to earth, 🙂
My dad, he died when I was a teenager, so never got to meet my children, he would have made a fantastic grandfather, especially to my son (as my sister and I were never into fishing or motorbikes, which were his greatest passion), so he would have been in his element with a boy in the family. @becky0020
Grayson Perry in one of his alter ego Claire’s big frock with matching wild makeup.He is a great artist hugely likeable, intelligent and very funny! Great conversations would make it a Xmas to remember! 😉
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The Godfather! It would be a thrilling christmas 😉
Audrey hepburn! Will love to exchange tips and take her to dinner at tiffanys 😉
P. D. James – I’d love to talk to her about her writing and life.
@ali_b_3
My Mum, she dies 7 years ago and I miss her loads. She loved Christmas and would put a lot of effort in just to make sure it went well and everyone was happy. She’d be the top of my guest list, a chance to have a laugh with her and a catch-up, and most importantly, a hug that I miss so very much.
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lionel richie , all night long …. lol :0)
@juleigh1976
Ryan Gosling, just because I love him. @LisaWils0n x
David Walliams, a real gent as well as being “a laydee” and very witty
@Happyelf_Sue
Would have to be Lisa Eldridge, her beauty tutorials have inspired me to buy so many benefit products I never would have tried! Plus she could show me how to look flawless using the advent calendar items 🙂
And would also love to have mike and sully from monsters inc join us, the joy it would bring my kids would be magical!!! @aislinnwilson
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I’d rather like to invite Dr Who, and the Tardis. We could all go time travelling after lunch 🙂
Marilyn monroes makeup artist Alan snider! Would love to go back in time and chat to him about beauty things. Genius!! @ailsa_bennett
Ellen degeneres! Shes soooo funny. Thanks for the giveaway, @ailsa_bennett
Feel a bi daft because i read it too fast in excitement and answered on twitter haha but I’d choose Stephen Fry, He’d be so interesting to talk to, and might bring Hugh Laurie (secret crush!) I’m @mungle xxx
Brian Blessed! @cardooling
Oops, typo! @carodooling
The Royal Family, i would love to find out what they talk about over the dinner table..
I think I’d chose Tim Minchin funny and intelligent what a great dinner guest he would be 🙂 x
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I think Prince Harry would make Xmas go with a swing, @judy2357
Karl Lagerfeld. He is a fashion genius and I love everything about him and his work. he also has a hilarious sense of dry humour. @notmuchwisdom xo