10 Celebrity quotes

JILLY COOPER

“Once I went out for a walk with my dog Bluebell and realised I’d left her lead behind, so I had to take off my bra behind the hedge to lead her.”

DERMOT O’LEARY

“Please don’t turn up to work in your weird sandals. You have to have the feet of Jesus for that to be OK.”

HUGH LAURIE

“I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn’t.”

BILL ROACHE

“Anything that happens in life is acceptable in Coronation Street.”

RACHEL WEISZ

“I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.”

JAMIE OLIVER

“Every day I wish I wasn’t famous.”

JOHNNY MARR (MUSICIAN)

“A middle-aged musician nursing a hangover in his mate’s dressing room is a dead duck.”

DAME VERA LYNN

“With all that we have today, it has become difficult for young people to fully appreciate the hardships we endured during the war. It was hard but it was also fulfilling.”

RICKY WILSON

“Politics is just like the X Factor for ugly people, isn’t it?”

10 DAVID WALLIAMS

“I had afternoon tea with the woman of my dreams since I was a boy, the unbreakable Dame Barbara Windsor.” (on his friendship with the actress, who is battling dementia)