DID THEY REALLY SAY THAT?

ON QUIZ SHOW FIVE GOLD RINGS

‘Is Tony Blair the one who died on the toilet?’ — Spencer, 13 ‘No, that’s Elvis’ — Daniel, 13 Watching someone being asked to identify whereabouts on the body the heart is: ‘I wouldn’t trust him to be a doctor’ — Connor, 11

ON THE ENDING TO BEAUTY AND THE BEAST:

‘The one thing she needs is calcium. Her bones must be really weak if she falls to the knees like that’ — Ashton, 11 ‘It’s not how you look but how you act, how you are ... ’ — Geet, seven On Beast’s transformation into a man at the end: ‘I think I preferred him as a beast’ — Jacob, 12

ON MARY BERRY

‘She’s a very famous singer, isn’t she?’ — Orin, seven ‘I would pay her a lot of money if she could be our childminder … I don’t have much money so I’d give her all my money’ — Sadie, nine ‘I would donate a pound’ — older brother Jack, 11 ‘I wish she was my Nan’ — Sadie, nine ‘But which nan would you swap her for?’ — younger brother Declan, eight

ON THE FILM GREASE

‘It’s saying you should change who you are, start smoking, just so you can get your boy. If Sandy had not changed it would be a much better ending with an actual moral’ — Macy, 12 ‘Why don’t they just exchange phone numbers?’ — Darcie, 10

ON THEIR PARENTS

‘I think Mum finds drinking wine very relaxing. That’s why we have lots in the house’ — William, nine