THEY SAID WHAT?

“I can’t function without watching the game. I love the man, but football comes first” Nadine Hanlon, of Doncaster, watched the England-Sweden World Cup clash during her “wedding breakfast” to mark the renewal of her vows with her husband, Lee. “I generally have to watch it on my own because I’m a danger to myself and others” Former EastEnders star Ross Kemp saying he is banished to the other end of the house when he watches England’s World Cup matches. “I never used to leave the house without a bit of make-up on. But the more you need it, the less you care about it” Actress Dame Helen Mirren. “Some of us are getting mighty tired of Scottish nationalist insistence their nationalism is nothing like the other, nasty kinds” JK Rowling, creator of Harry Potter. “You have to be brave and not so invested in looking the way you used to” Actress Jane Fonda, 80. “I don’t think I was ever an angry drunk. Just a drunk drunk” Actor Simon Pegg on his former drinking days. “I am lucky to do what I really enjoy doing ... I would do it for nothing ... That is the reason I have been spared the worst excesses of the mid-life crisis I have actually got happier as I’ve got older. I have learned not to panic” Actor Rupert Graves. “When I was growing up I was looking for security and stability and I was sometimes attracted to older men. Now I find myself in situations where younger men are attracted to me, maybe because I get younger and younger. I call myself the female Peter Pan” Italian lawyer and reality TV star Nancy Dell’Olio, 54. “I’ve yet to have a phone call. Trust me. I went past Paddy Power the other day and I’m six to one on. I’ve got to put a bet on myself, to be honest. In fact, I may have even put £100 on myself. But I’ve got no idea about whether I’ll get it” TV chef James Martin laying a bet on himself joining the Top Gear team. “While scanning my paper over my bacon and eggs yesterday morning, I could not decide whether I was supposed to be celebrating the football, or mourning the death of Brexit” David Salter, of Richmond, Surrey, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph.