the stig. i can't drive vans, but i bet he could! as you don't specify the destiny of the van, i'm assuming that the van itself is dumped. the stig could drive us out. no problems.

Andy McNab as the experience is similar to SAS training. Apart from Ray Mears, I think the rest would be more of a hindrance.

Andy McNab definitely.

SAS men have been trained in all sorts of situations so could figure out ways of getting you out of wherever you are taken to. Plus, if you get bored, he could regale you with lots of interesting stories.

Well bondgirl, you set some interesting challenges don't you?
I don't have any trouble with the driving bit and did a bit of orienteering in the services so it would have to be Madonna.
Although I'd be Guilty by Association and probably Die Another Day, she could at least tell me a Bedtime Story and Laugh to keep me from Crying. When it came to it though she'd be good at Causing a Commotion by shouting "Where's the Party?"

I'd have to trust her to Be careful with my Heart though.

Madonna's pretty healthy for a woman her age - I bet she'd give as good as she got in any kind of fight situation, plus she's pretty supple, so might be handy for wriggling through air vents and so on.

Failing that, Bush or Gates, as they're important enough that they'd have whole armies of secret service/police looking for them from the very second they'd vanished.

Bill Gates, the spare million dollars-worth of pocket change would be enough to buy your way out of any situation, and I dare say we could choose a rather luxurious route home too :D

President Bush, you never know when you're gonna need your trusty human shield!

I'm not sure Madonna would be much sure atm tbh, on account of she seems to b a bit pre-occupied with adopting that entire African village as per the news of late.

Michael Palin? Ok, he knows his way round the gaff but if ya'd've said john Cleese, the jokes would've been better and it wouldn't take so long to get home cos he has longer legs(!)

Well assumming that the Kidnappers may just know all about Andy Mcnab and all his S.A.S. work, they more than likley tortue him or kill him if he dont talk. so that 1 is out. Bush no, he be killed.
I go for Billy Gates, as the old adage goes. " Money Talks."

I'd go for Michael Palin - but only because no-one else has chosen him, and I remember what it was like to be picked last on the football team.

Seriously though, he would know how to get back from anywhere and we'd also have a good laugh too.

Shockingly, I'd go for Bush since, although he personally couldn't help, his people would be looking for him and would get him out (along with me)!

Ray Mears for me, because even if he couldn't help us escape I would enjoy his company as I think he could teach me a thing or two about how past and present cultures lived and survived.