Girls: the six men you most want on a desert island

Musing on what it would be like to be shipwrecked on a desert island, these are the 6 men I most want with me. And no, Brad Pitt doesn’t even get to set a handsome flip-flopped toe on my island…

1) Tristan Gooley

CV: The only person in the world working full time in natural navigation (that’s finding your way around the world using nature, the sun, moon, stars and weather). Tristan teaches one day natural navigation courses, and with him around I might avoid being shipwrecked on the island in the first place. He’s good looking too.

2) Art Mortvedt

CV: A legendary survival expert and trainer based in Alaska, Art is equally at home on a desert island or the expanses of Antarctica. He’s already given us advice on fending off grizzly bears and how not to die in a frozen moose hide, so my guess is he’d be a dab hand at keeping the wild animals and poisonous snakes at bay on the desert island.

3) Steve Brill

CV: Steve Brill is known as “Wildman”. He’s one of America’s best-known food foragers and was once arrested for eating a dandelion in Central Park. Steve offers wild food foraging tours of the park in New York, and if he can find anything other than burger wrappers in a city park, then the culinary treasures of a tropical island will be no problem at all.

4) Tom Kerridge

CV: Tom is a Michelin starred chef who offers people the chance to spend the day with him in the kitchen at The Hand & Flowers in Buckinghamshire. If Wildman Steve Brill can find the food on the island, Tom Kerridge will be able to turn it into a banquet.

5) James Zoppe

CV: James is a teacher of Medieval jousting lessons. Every girl needs a knight in shining armour.

6) Al Brunt

CV: Al has over 30 years of experience as a woodworker but more importantly for my desert island, he’s a master boat builder. His boatyard offers wooden boat design and building courses, and frankly he’s probably my best chance of getting off the island.

And once off the island, I’m open to offers from Brad Pitt…

(Footnote: apologies to my husband for not including him on the list and please send me your CV if you think you can do better than any of the above).