Celebrity quotes

1 CAROL VORDERMAN

“My bottom is so big it has got its own gravitational field.”

2 JOHN CRAVEN

“No swearing, no questionable taste and no sex, unless it involves animals at a distance.” (on Countryfile’s success)

3 CHER

“My character wasn’t very liked, so I was nervous.” (recalling her first day on the set of Mamma Mia!)

4 TOM CRUISE

“I couldn’t walk for days. I had a golf cart to take me to set.”(on breaking his ankle filming Mission: Impossible – Fallout)

5 JODIE WHITTAKER

“All the rules are out the window! That’s what makes it so fun.” (on playing the first female Doctor Who)

6 MICHAEL PALIN

“I always wanted to be an explorer, but it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.”

7 JULIE GRAHAM

“Women in their 50s and older are invisible when it comes to television. Film is the worst. It’s like we don’t exist.”

8 IDRIS ELBA

“It scuppers my James Bond chances then, I guess”. (on taking on the role of Notre Dame)

9 SUSANNA REID

“My skin just gets thicker by the second.” (on calls to quit GMB over co-host Piers Morgan’s Trump interview)

10 JEREMY CLARKSON

“I am appalled that the political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is not above Gary Lineker. She is properly brilliant.” (on BBC salaries)

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