QUOTES of the week

‘Gavin Williamson live on BBC Breakfast right now. Or, as he calls it, DDE Breakfast.’

TV presenter Richard Osman

mocks the Education Secretary over the exam grades fiasco.

‘Nice to sit here, to sit here nice.’

Plaque

on a memorial bench dedicated to entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth at his beloved Wentworth Golf Club.

‘Trying not to be depressed that while the BBC don’t want to make any more Stargazing Live, they will pay Scarlett Moffatt to make a podcast about how she doesn’t believe in the Moon landings.’

Dara O’Briain

after his show was axed but the reality star kept hers on conspiracy theories.

‘There are too many overpaid people – news presenters who have celebrity status and salaries to match.’ Former newsreader

Jan Leeming

explains why she won’t be renewing her TV licence.

‘Who is going to read a mug and find in it permission to hit their wife?’

Emma Webb,

of think-tank Civitas, reacts after Sainsbury’s withdrew a mug featuring the Roald Dahl quote ‘A brilliant idea hit her’ – in case it encouraged domestic violence.

‘Though I am a person of colour, I’m still more a person of Jesus. What I saw in terms of that movement was not aligned with what I believe in.’

England rugby star Billy Vunipola

explains why he refused to take a knee last weekend in support of Black Lives Matter.

‘If you want a President who defines the job as spending hours a day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he’s your man.’

Bill Clinton

lambasts Donald Trump.

‘I’d rather have chewed my arm off.’

Northamptonshire Chief Constable Nick Adderley

teases Sergeant Scott Renwick, who was forced to ask firefighters to cut him free from his own handcuffs.