10 Celebrity quotes

WILL YOUNG

“I leave with joy in my heart.” (on quitting Strictly)

GOLDIE HAWN

“Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.”

SIR ROD STEWART

“This monumental honour has topped off my career. I promise to ‘wear it well.’” (on his knighthood)

JOHN CLEESE

“I look at Donald Trump, and I see a narcissist with no attention span.”

STING

“I had to leave home and make that journey 300 miles south to London, with little more than an old guitar, a bag of dreams and a notebook full of songs.”

ED BALLS

“It’s more tense than a general election.” (on waiting for results on Strictly)

RUSSELL BRAND

“Yesterday I threw a much-too-big stick into the river for my dog, who is also much too big. Those two giant things in the river made me feel very happy. A massive log and a massive dog – that could be the secret to happiness.”

TILLY RAMSAY

“Please excuse my embarrassing dad.” (message on a T-shirt worn by Gordon Ramsay’s daughter)

JILLY COOPER

“Love is bed springs creaking from laughter and not sex.”

10 ANTHONY HOROWITZ

“There is nowhere more evil than an English village because it breeds mistrust, suspicion and bitterness.” (the Midsomer Murders screenwriter on rural life)