It’s amazing the people I get to meet. While I was on Sky News recently I was with Michelle Dewbury I am sure you remember her from The Apprentice a couple of seasons back. She was telling me about the great success she’s been having with a couple of companies she has had on the interent. I mentioned my admiration for Moshi Monsters and that’s when she told me she was personal friends with the creator, one Michael Acton Smith and she suggested that I should give them a ring which I did, hence the photo.

I invited Michael to come for dinner with a friend and when he came he brought Tom Boardman, his co-founder for the online gadget and gift retailer Firebox.com

Now these two guys are both the epitome of the new age. Not only are they incredibly successful, but they are both making millions from their creations. We had a fascinating night and it turns out we are fans of a mutual appreciation society – i.e. they rate me in my business and I them in theirs.

I left them at the Angels to enjoy the remainder of their night in the company of the Angels. We will be meeting up shortly, but this time with a little business in mind… as they say watch this space.

Now, as you know, we got loads of top line sportsmen that come into both of my clubs – and as you will know by now if you follow this – David Hayes is now one of our top line regulars but World Class snooker players have visited my clubs ove the years too. Jimmy White, Ronnie O’Sullivan and of course we have had on many occasions the legendary Hurricane Alex Higgins.

Alex and I go back as far as the 1972 when he was got his first world title, and believe it or not, I spent the night drinking with him and Freddy Mercury the legendary front man from Queen.

Alex and I had many meetings throughout the decades that followed and somewhere in my archives I have a photo of him and I where I won one of his champion cups off him in a game and I still have a that photo somewhere. I’ll let you have a look at it when I find it.

But back to the story.

When I was entertaining Michael Acton Smith and Tom in came one of the most famous names in modern day snooker and of course a champion himself Ken Doherty.

He was such a nice guy he had his photo taken over ten times and not with the Angels but with all the guys who were so impressed to see him. Ken had brought in a message for me from his friend Jimmy White to remind me of an incredibly crazy night that Jimmy and I had once spent in Stringfellows. And yes, I do remember it, but I’m suprised that Jimmy does. Because what started as a dinner date at 9 and night finished at 11 the following morning… but that, as they say, is another story.

Well I must say it’s been quite the week for TV and radio because on Thursday I was also invited on to Sky news to review that mornings news papers along with Michelle Dewsbury who as you probably know was the winner of the second series of The Apprentice. It was all good fun.

Here’s a fun photograph of of a personal and good friend of mine who is easily one of the most famous and successful sports commentators in the UK – Richard Keys.

This is a crazy photo because Bella and I and Richard and his lovely wife Julia and with one more personal friend the Ex Manager of Manchester City and one time star player of Everton Peter Reid visited one of our new favourite restaurants The 34 on Grosvenor Square.

Richard being a little short sighted asked if he could borrow a pare of specs from the Maitre D’ and sadly they only had this novelty pair which had lights attached. But Richard being the good sport he is put them on anyway.

By the way, Restaurant 34 is one of London’s latest restaurants and it’s fantastic and if you ever get a change to go you must. It belongs to another good friend of mine – Richard Caring.

OK now concentrate on this photograph because this is a bunch of my friends from Oxford University.They are all in a society called The King Charles II Society of which I am an Honorary member.

Sadly I wasn’t there on this particular night in Stringfellows but they did bring with them a present for me. An illustrious King Charles II tie.

I have been invited to talk at Oxford and Cambridge for many years now in fact my first invite to speak was around about 1985. So let’s be fair I quite deserve the accolade.

The last word is if you have a look at the photographs there’s every chance that one of these boys is a future Prime Minister, and I certainly hope so because they really know how to have good fun.

Here’s a shot of myself with Nicky Campbell who is of course is one of the most famous TV and Radio personalities. I was just recently on BBC Breakfast TV and to do so I had to travel up to Salford. Reason being that this is a celebration of my 50th year in the business of nightclubs.

While I was up there I showed him a few good old photographs of personalities from the past.

Also while I was there I was asked by Nicky if I could go on his radio show which I did so it was quite a productive morning.

I even managed to do an interview for BBC Manchester earlier on.

A real special event last Sunday when Bella and I attended the ‘Soldiering On Awards’. This is a very big event in the military calendar where awards are given out to some very special people in the Armed Forces.

We at Stringfellows actually sponsor one award known as the Major James Bowman award and is now given every year to a soldier who has shown immense courage, tenacity and is an inspiration his fellow comrades.

The man this year was Darren Swift who was blown up in Northern Ireland some years back which resulted in him loosing both legs and various other injuries but that hasn’t held him back for one minute. This man is a superhero. You can find more by Googling him and the Soldiering On Awards. It was a wonderful moving and yes, very inspirational evening.

I am pleased to say that Stringfellows throughout the years has attracted the most famous boxers in the world. Mohammed Ali, Mike Tyson, Frank Bruno… the list goes on, right up to the present day with David Haye. But what a surprise when he turned up at the club the other night with Lennox Lewis.

This Photograph has been in every Sunday paper this weekend including today’s Daily Mail. OK, this isn’t one of my photos but it was taken in 1986 when I owned the Hippodrome nightclub. At the time it was the trendiest nightclub in Europe. On this night it was Sinitta’s very first stage show in London.

Of course who would have recognised Simon Cowell in those days? But the good thing about Simon is he’s been coming to my clubs ever since although we haven’t seen Sinitta for quite a while now.

It was so good to see Simon back in the club. Sadly I was in Mallorca but I spoke to him on the phone and he told me he is in London for another month or so. He was with one of his best friends Rav Singh. Rav of course used to be top celebrity writer for the News Of The World and of course is also a good friend of Piers Morgan.

As usual Simon was very generous with the girls although he had no dancers he was holding court for a couple of hours with about four or five of the girls.

Here’s a couple of photographs to remind Simon of what he used to be like a couple of years ago on his previous visits to Stringfellows.

As always he was the perfect gentleman and for all his Mr Nasty image I think he’s one of the nicest guys in the business.

I am invited to all types of TV and I turn down all the reality stuff but I accept anything political and hence I was on Andrew Neil’s This Week on BBC1 Thursday 8th March. I actually think it was one of my best appearances for a long time. I was actually opposing tax increases and encouraging Tax cuts, which didn’t go down well with the Labour supremo Diane Abbott. Former conservative minister Michael Portillo was a bit wishy-washy on that one as well.

However, during that time I was able to chat with a good friend of mine – Sir David Frost. I do feel this guy is one of the special people on TV and I am very proud to call him my friend. You might call this a mutual admiration society because he thinks I’m pretty good too.

By now you all know that David Haye – our very own World Boxing Champion is one of our regulars at the club. But after the incident where he was attacked by Dereck Chisora where David just happened to be a guest it was a surprise to see him in the club just two days later.

David told me that he was completely innocent and that the other guy was a bit of a maniac.

But then again who else but a maniac would try and take on David Haye?

After Barbados we flew into Miami. In the late 80s and early 90s I had a fabulous club called Stringfellows in Coconut Grove and have made a habit of visiting Miami at least once a year and Bella thinks it is one of the most fabulous places on the planet.

Ocean Drive Boulevard on South Beach is very tourismio but they are all fantastic, interesting and wonderful people. The food in the restaurants is as good if not better than anywhere that Bella and I have eaten in London. Their stone crabs and Alaskan king crab cannot be faulted but the best part of the visit was when Bella threw me a surprise party at the solid gold gentleman’s club in Fort Lauderdale owned by one of my best friends Michael J Peters.

In America Michael is a legend and a man I admire immensely and to be honest he was the man I first learned the Gentleman’s Club business from. And on his left is another legend that joined the party. Vince Neil – Lead singer of Mötley Crüe who’s big single ‘Girls Girls Girls’ is the epitome of our business.

So thank you Michael, thank you Vince and thank you Bella for one of the best nights of my life.

Just come back from a wonderful trip to Barbados with my beautiful wife Bella to celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary and just for the record the finest restaurant on the island is still The Cliff.

Even through a couple of years back Michael Winner gave it a really bad review. As we know Michael can act like such an old queen when he wants to and he threw one of his fits as usual when he couldn’t get the right table.
So let me tell you the food is sensational, the service is the best on the island and the view from any one of the tables is magnificent.

However there is a new restaurant just opened called Sin Sin just a little further down from The Cliff and is causing new waves amongst the celebs on the island. Whilst we were there quite a few celebs were in the place including Cilla Black, Russ Abbot and John Lodge – the lead singer of the legendary Moody Blues. The day after we were there good old Sir Cliff Richard himself turned up with a party of his friends.

The food is also fantastic and the restaurant itself is more than worth a visit but in my view The Cliff is still number one and Sin Sin is number two. Just for the record The Lone Star is a well deserved number three. In fact, let’s be fair, it’s better than a number three it is simply one of the top five restaurants on the island.

Out of the blue in came the international football star manager Sven Eriksson. I am quite sure most of you know his history, but if not – he has managed both Manchester City and the England team.

Anyway, he popped in with a very good mutual friend of ours – a Swedish guy called Joal.

At the next table was our own World Champion David Haye and of course they had a good chat with each other.

Well, I had Sven Eriksson at my table and we had a great chat. I know very little about football but at the time Harry Redknapp had just announced that he was innocent and that he was in line to be England’s new manager.

During the dinner there were many opinions as to if Harry was the right guy for the the job but I have to tell you that Sven was the sole of discretion but when pushed for his opinion he gave a very interesting answer…

However as they say in Vegas “What is said in Stringfellows stays in Stringfellows”.

By the way David Haye says he is in line to fight the the Russian giant Vitali Klitschko brother to Wladimir the one he fought last time. David makes no secret of the fact that they have yet to put down the appropriate amount of money to get him really intrested.

Just for the record he still fully trains every day.

The iconic and legendary Professor Stephen Hawking who recently celebrated his 70th birthday on the 8th January.

This photo was taken when he vistied the club a few years ago. His appearance at Stringfellows so fascinated the press that this photo went all around the world, and with good reason because he is without doubt my all time favourite inspriational person in the whole world.

And so, a rather belated but hearfelt Happy Birthday Professor Stephen Hawking.

So here comes another year. I’ve been out of the UK for a while but now I’m back.

Both clubs have been doing fantastic New Year business and of course my members and the business guys use my clubs when visting London from all around the world.

It’s still great when the celebs and film stars turn up to join in the fun. Here is Marc Warren who was last year such a big hit in ‘Hustle’. And of course now even more famous for starring in the incredibly successful TV show ‘Mad Dogs’.

The fun thing here is that a lot of the action takes place in Mallorca where I also live but I have to be honest – I haven’t seeen anyone of them here yet.

I was recently invited to go up to my home city of Sheffield to support a new book called Dirty Stop Out’s Guide to 1960s Sheffield.

This is the latest of a run of magazines by Dave Manvell. This particular one was written and put together my Neil Anderson. And that’s the guy that’s in the photo with me here.

The night was wrapped around the King Mojo reunion. the King Mojo was one of my early clubs in Sheffield in the 60s and is now a legendary and iconic name in the club world. If you want to know more Google up King Mojo Sheffield and you’ll get the picture.

At this King Mojo reunion my very good friend Dave Berry was playing live along with another iconic sheffield name – Frank White. Dave Berry has a very special place in my life story as he was the first band I ever made any money on. Dave Berry and the Cruisers played for me in September 1962 in my very first club in Sheffield called the Black Cat

Dave played for me on my third night – my two previous nights had collectively made a loss of £40. When Dave had played I made £65 and the rest as they say is history.

But Dave Berry and the Cruisers are still a massive attraction playing blues music all over the world. If you ever get a chance, you must see this guy he is the real deal.

Here’s young Dougie of McFly who of course is now King of the Jungle! I went to do the Lorraine Kelly TV show where I bumped into Dougie. A well deserved winner of “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here”.

I am invited to do Daytime TV, Night-time TV in fact any time TV on a regular basis. I turn the majority of it down. No I won’t do I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here and no I won’t do Strictly Come Dancing. I accept all the political programmes including the News, but every so often I do a regular TV show and this time I chose Lorraine Kelly.

Lorraine and I go back many years and I like her personally so on this occasion I decided to accept her invitation.

Now here’s an interesting photo. You may not recognise this guy but he is one of the most famous chefs in the world Michel Roux Jnr and he is a chef at the legendary Le Gavroche in Mayfair. He has most recently been in the public eye as an expert judge on BBC2′s professional edition of MasterChef.

We had our photograph taken because we are both in opposition to Westminster’s new parking restrictions. If you want to know more about that Google that too.

Having said all that I looked him in the eye and told him that Stringfellow’s steaks were the best in London. He looked me back in the eye and said “If you say so Peter, that’s OK by me.”

I am asked many times what are my favourite restaurants in London. I usually answer quite flippantly La Caprice, Scotts, The Ivy, and Chino Latino’s (This one is really Bella’s al time favourite). On this occasion I am also going to tell you that another favourite is Giovanni’s. It’s a very small Italian Restaurant in Goodwin court in the West End – it has great history and is owned by Pinot. Now, Pinot himself is a legendary Maître d’ from the old days of the original Tramp Club from the 1960s and 70s.

The reason I don’t mention Giovani’s on a regular basis is that it’s already packed solid every night and with good reason.

Not all the celebrities that come to Stringfellows want to have their photograph taken and of course that can be very understandable. Katie Price has been coming to the club from the very early days when she first started out as Jordan and of course Bella and I have met Katie at various events.

Recently Katie popped in with a party of her friends and asked for no photos very politely declined a photo. But that’s OK we understand.

But then again, here comes fabulously handsome Shane Lynch from Boyzone, looking tanned and fit and was quite happy to have a protograph taken with his favourite dancer – Lottie. And you’ve got to admit they make a lovely couple. Shane is of course very famous for having loads of tattoos which these days are called body-art, though as you can see from the photo he’s in no rush to show them off.

You’ve got to admit that he and Lottie make a good looking couple.

Last Saturday Steve Coogan came into the club with one of his film producers called Matt and they told me that Steve is making a new film about the life of Paul Raymond. Paul of course was the guy that brought Striptease into the West End, Soho in the fifties. Needless to say he had to fight the authorities and usually won. Sadly he died a few years back and whilst he had undoubtedly made himself a billionaire, towards the end he wasn’t a very happy man.

I expect this film to be fantastic and the main reason of course is that Steve Coogan is the star of the film.

And now onto Alan Partridge, who happens to be one of my favourite TV characters of all time. I asked Steve if there was any chance of Alan coming in and he said “I don’t think so unless you want to be deeply embarassed.” because as he told me “You, Peter, happen to be one of Alan’s heroes!” which made my night.

This is Steve’s new book – I Partridge – it’s a ‘Must Buy’.

Here are three of the big stars from the latest TV show phenomena, “The Only Way Is Essex”. They just won a BAFTA and after receiveing it they came here to celebrate.

Whilst the dancers were quite excited that these three boys, Kirk, Joey and Mickey, came into the club there was definitely some dissappointment around that some guy called Mark Wright wasn’t with them, appearently he is a real hot shot on the show. But as I say, three out of four isn’t bad.

Let me assure you, good looking TV stars or not, the girls gave no free dances, but then again the guys didn’t ask for any, they drank champagne and played the game.

Whilst I haven’t yet seen the TV show it seems that everyone else in the world seems to have.

My very good friend Adee Phelan had a fabulous TV show a couple of days ago called The Secret Millionaire on Channel 4. If you didn’t see it basically it was about Adee opening a popup hair salon on what can only be described as a sink estate and how he interacted with the residents and the local kids. By the end of the program he gave away a total of £50,000 to help various community programs.

He himself came from a deprived background with his own problems in the past involving drugs and booze. It was an astoundingly emotive program and he came over an absolute natural.

On top of all that there was a piece in the program where Adee was entertaining friends in Stringfellows, sitting at my table, in my throne with gallons of champagne being poured…

… What a star. Can’t wait to see you back in the club Adee.