All right! I'll come clean and confess.

In fact, I might even have a T-shirt printed with that wonderful silhouette and the declaration in a ring around it: 'I love the Dome.'

No, don't be idiotic. Not THAT Dome! I am talking about Brighton's Dome - the Dome currently undergoing a £22 million makeover.

She is a bit like an ageing actress winning the National Lottery (the Dome won £15 million), deciding to have a nip here and a tuck there, some lifts and implants and colourings and one or two other unmentionable things the cosmetic surgeon can get up to.

When everything is complete, she relaunches her gorgeous self on an adoring public claiming, incidentally, it was all done by diet, exercise and drinking lots of water.

So next September, the gloriously reconstructed Dome will be unveiled with the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra playing an intriguing mix of Beethoven, Debussy, Prokofiev and Finzi.

It will be a gem the heart of town can be proud of - a brilliant, up-to-date venue for music and dance and comedy and much more too.

It will have a variable stage, adjustable acoustics and moveable seats. Not bad for a lady nearly 200 years old.

How different from her namesake at Greenwich. Way back in February, when I called for the sacking of the then chief executive of the Millennium Dome, Jennie Page, it all seemed a disgraceful but containable affair.

Little did we appreciate the unimaginable shambles the whole £1 billion scandal would become.

Heseltine and Mandelson have slithered away from all responsibility. We still await the resignation of Lord Falconer. And like his mentor Tony Blair, he absolutely refuses to say sorry for anything, including misleading the Lords over the Dome's financial state.

But I digress. While all the Labour delegates were having fun in the conference centre, I was on a private tour of the building works in Brighton's Dome with the operations manager, Philip Morgan. Scrabbling around the gutted building was like being on the set of a Hollywood 'end of the world' movie.

Floors and ceilings were gone, beams were exposed, there were huge holes in walls.

The only thing missing was Schwarzenegger striding around with a laser guided rocket launcher under his arm.

What an exciting project - and in spite of the apparent chaos, the work is on time and on budget.

Short of some unforeseen disaster, there seems to be nothing to stop the relaunch of the Dome's gorgeous self on an adoring public - just like the ageing actress.

Sadly though, there is just one silly proposal that I cannot take too seriously.

Someone has suggested that a contemporary sculpture, seven columns of glass and steel, should be installed near the Dome/Pavilion complex.

No one could be so insensitive, surely. No one could be so doltish. Not even our gullible and credulous planners could imagine such a work might enhance these beautiful grade 1 listed buildings.

No, please, no . . !