THEY SAID WHAT?
“She’s starting to look a bit more matronly, she’s had six or seven children, so a bit wider, bit more of a bust, the makeup is more drawn. But there will come a point in her story when no amount of prosthetic make-up or me lowering my voice will be convincing enough”
Actress Jenna Coleman, saying that her days of playing Queen Victoria are numbered.
“Women are judged for the tone of their voices, not for what is coming out of their heads” Actress Glenn Close.
“Having been on the receiving end of months of online abuse, I know that even for someone who is thick skinned and in the public eye, just how incredibly difficult it is to take. As a father-of-two I wanted to play a part in helping to better protect our future generations from the kind of vile abuse I experienced”
Football star Anton Ferdinand, who is backing a campaign to get online safety taught in schools.
“The international community needs to do more together, both to prevent future chemical weapons use and to ensure those who use them are held to account, but also to tackle the range of other threats to global security, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction” The Prime Minister.
“The call for wholesale nationalisation could put investment in a deep freeze at precisely the time we want to be encouraging investment in the economy”
Dr Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, envisaging a Corbyn-led Labour government.
“So keen are women to embrace victimhood that members of the
MeToo movement wail about flirtatious conduct decades ago and even a cabinet minister whimpers about an off-colour joke of several years earlier. It’s enough to make one wonder if we should have stayed at home darning socks” Former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe on “the age of the whine and the whinge”.
“I was appalling. I looked and felt like a mad woman fleeing her burning home. I’d made a terrible mistake. That night I called my husband in tears” TV style guru Susannah Constantine after her first Strictly Come Dancing rehearsals. She came bottom of the leaderboard in round one.
“There have been times when even standing up on my ward rounds has been a struggle, as my legs felt like jelly. I’ve looked a right plonker trying to practise my steps down the corridors when nobody’s looking” TV doctor Ranj Singh who is pursuing his medical work while a Strictly contestant.
“There are lots of gaps in the BBC’s coverage now, in my view, and that’s because they are harried and badgered by all sorts of people” TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
“It breaks my heart to have had a whole summer of anti-Semitism not being challenged sufficiently strongly in our party” Labour MP Yvette Cooper.