Think Pink

The Laurent Perrier 'Pop Art' Pink Party at Suka restaurant, The Sanderson Hotel, London.

We were promised an A-list celeb crowd to watch artist Sacha Jafri work on a 'live painting' of the London skyline in the Sanderson's incredible 'indoor' garden restaurant. All in a good cause (Capital FM's Help A London Child) It was indeed a little bit spesh to perch on a shiny pebble-cum-stool and listen to the babble of an indoor waterfall and the louder babble of London's party elite negotiating the slippery stone pathways.

I chatted to Sacha, a paint-daubed vision straight out of a Fifties beatnik movie (be still my indie heart) who told me he was going to cherry pick the celebrities he wanted to add their hand-prints to the vast splattery painting, which already featured kids frolicking under the London Eye, the Gherkin, and other iconic London images. "I already have Mischa Barton, David Walliams, Ballet dancer Darcy Bussell, Patrick Cox. It's an interesting mix of people I really admire. I'm hoping one of my bigger clients like Bill Gates or Phillip Green will be interested in buying it, eventually," he says. "It'll probably end up in the lobby of a corporate headquarters, we'll hopefully raise about £1 million for the charity altogether" It's very nice to know that by quaffing lots of pink Laurent Perrier I was doing my bit for the kids. Later on I caught Meg Matthews scrubbing the acrylic paint from her hands in the ladies loo, and Keisha Sugababe showed me her painted-up mitt proudly. Keisha was admiring some of the more outre gowns some of the guests were trailing behind them, and lamenting her 'safe' (actually rather chic) outfit. "I'm wearing a plain white shirt from H&M tonight, after I had a wardrobe malfunction at the Spider-Man 3 premiere." Turns out her stylist hadn't sewn her properly into her wrap-around dress. "We stuck it together with 'tit-tape' but I came adrift on the red carpet," she laughed. "So tonight I'm making sure I'm properly buttoned…"

After chatting with very nice radio DJ Richard Bacon ("I'm on the Hall's Soothers tonight," he said, not that I'd be lazy enough to make a joke about him being on anything stronger, "I had a particularly hard piece of pitta bread at lunch - it feels like I've swallowed a razor blade.") Shame 'cause the Malaysian canapes were very nice indeed, although Keisha did laugh when an unspectacular bowl of crudites came 'round. "I'd love a bowl of chips…" Spotting another 'celeb' in the crowd, I asked the actually-very-nice Abi Titmuss who she was wearing ("a vest I got in a goodie bag at a party"), then sadly put my foot in it by asking if she'd put her handprint on the canvas. "No, no one's asked me to do that yet…" she said. "Should I go up and offer to do it, you think?"