10 Celebrity quotes

1 ALICE COOPER

“I’m extremely romantic. I date my wife.”

2 ED BALLS

“I always felt as if I needed a fake tan . . . but actually I’ve had one, and I feel sticky.” (on preparing for his next performance on Strictly Come Dancing)

3 SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK

“We’re divorced to each other right now. We’ve never really left each other.” (on ex-husband the Duke of York)

4 BRENDA BLETHYN

“My husband proposed to me on Skype. He got down on one knee and disappeared off the screen.”

5 MICHAEL FASSBENDER

“I can lie pretty easily to journalists.”

6 JOHN PRESCOTT

“Choosing a Prime Minister is a bit like buying a car. You can look at the history, check to see if it’s sound and take it for a test run.”

7 VICTORIA PENDLETON

“If you want a bum like Beyonce, then you need to get on a horse, not a bike.”

8 DAVID CAMERON.

“You should have stuck with me, mate.” (a message he reportedly sent to Boris Johnson after the Brexit vote)

9 GARETH MALONE

“I’m a back-seat driver in life. Back-seat baker, cook, organiser, back-seat everything. I always have an opinion on how I’d like things to be.”

10 JEFFREY ARCHER

“I had the self-confidence and ignorance of youth. You have to live 50 more years to realise how ignorant and stupid you really are.”