We'd have done anything ... for an invite

Fun and frolics for a bunch of showbiz hacks who were invited round Andrew Lloyd Webber's gaff for dinner last night as part of the promotional campaign for his new BBC1 Oliver Twist musical reality show I'd Do Anything. The good lord and his dear lady wife served up a treat of fishcakes and stroganoff with rice - which young Oliver would certainly have been asking for more of. Lloyd Webber even entertained the hacks - who included The Sun's Sara Nathan, the News of the World's Dan Wootton, the Mirror's Mark Jefferies, Closer's Dean Piper, the Daily Star's Peter Dyke and the Sunday Mirror's Lara Gould - with a turn on the old Joanna. I'd Do Anything judge Denise Van Outen and presenter Graham Norton even dropped in for a glass of port. The hacks, and this was trusting of the good lord, were even allowed to have a bit of a wander round the Lloyd Webber pad. Monkey is told they discovered a sort of a magical lift that changes colour as you go up and down. One of the toilets also has an old pic of Victoria and David Beckham with the Lloyd Webbers' kids. Lovely. Monkey's invite must have got lost in the post.