It's all very well to capture Saddam Hussein, but it's not going to stop me talking about Pop Idol. Nice beard though. That's what happens when you hide in a grotto 2 weeks before Christmas.

I knew Sam would be out of Pop Idol last night. I've been saying all along that Mark will win.

I'm not making any more predictions about Pop Idol. It's easy enough to make myself look stupid in everyday life, without seeing my publicly stated shoe-ins voted out every week.

Hurry, hurry, hurry! There's only one day left of my art exhibition at the Burlington gallery in London, and with my original watercolours and drawings on sale from a very reasonable £250, you'd better get down there quick and snap up a bargain. Click here to see my quarterpage advert, as published in 'The Week' magazine.

Well ok, it's not me. But I was quite good at finger painting at school, and if I'd been an artist, I'm pretty sure I'd have chosen that name.