10 Celebrity quotes
1 TOM DALEY
“I once forgot to do my trunks up, and as I hit the water they came down to my ankles. The underwater camera beamed it all to the big screen. Luckily there were lots of bubbles.”
2 BARBARA WINDSOR
“It’s really daft to be 80, isn’t it? Now I’m a Dame I have to watch how I behave.”
3 CARLY SIMON
“I fell in love every time I slept with a man. As long as a man has talent, smell and humour, I’m a goner.”
4 MARTIN SHAW
“I am not in the metaphorical departure lounge yet, but I am a good way down the M4 and can see the signs for the airport. It makes me reflective.”
5 VANESSA FELTZ
“Part of me is thrilled Kim Kardashian’s gargantuan derriere is considered a thing of beauty. On the other hand, isn’t there something grotesquely cartoonish about her rear?”
6 NIGELLA LAWSON
“No one should be put on this earth to go on a diet. No one should eat themselves ill, either.”
7 MADONNA
“Only I can tell my story.”
8 DERMOT O’LEARY
“Harry Styles is terrific, he is lightning in a bottle.”
9 JO BRAND
“I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.”
10 JOANNA LUMLEY
“Politicians have a thankless job – everybody hates you for a start.”
GRANTCHESTER star Robson Green has told of the terror behind his latest documentary series.
Tales From The Coast saw the popular actor and presenter throw himself into a series of challenges.
He was attacked by an angry seal, took a high dive into a watery quarry and climbed 400ft up a sheer rock face.
And the latter, the Devil’s Slide on Lundy Island, was where he faced his greatest fear.
“When I was in the middle of doing it I did think I might have bitten off more than I could chew,” Robson, 52, told iN10.
“I was genuinely frightened. There was no fraudulent presenting – I was really scared.
“I was on a 400ft cliff, staring into the abyss and the only thing that was keeping me from certain broken limbs was the rubber on my soles.
“I had no traction with my hands on that final stretch. It’s something I would never, ever do again.”
As a qualified diver Robson says he loves all-action challenges, whether they be for a documentary or an acting role.
He’s is fine physical shape, something not lost on the many fans who tuned in to the series.
When he stripped to the waist for an impromptu open-air shower under a waterfall, they took to social media to brand him “the hottest man on earth”.
Mention that and I get a swift response.
“Firstly, I have to say I admire the Twitter users’ taste – and secondly I, would suggest they should have gone to Specsavers!”
It’s typical of the affable former Soldier Soldier and Wire In The Blood star who is never less than good company.
Coming from just a stone’s throw from the Scottish border in Northumberland, he’s keen to chat about how any IndyRef2 is likely to turn out.
And he’s delighted that shows such as Tales From The Coast and Tales From Northumberland have prompted a bit of a homegrown tourism boom from those keen to follow in his footsteps. But he’s back on acting duty as DI Geordie Keating again this week with Grantchester.