THEY SAID WHAT?

“Oh, God. Don’t start a bloody war” – What the Duke of Edinburgh said to TV’s Michael Palin when he told him he was going to Korea. “I want George to grow up in a real, living environment. I don’t want him growing up behind palace walls. He has to be out there” – The Duke of Cambridge on his

son, Prince George. “I wouldn’t want to be a butler, standing around posh people who don’t know how to feed themselves” – Actor Jim Carter, who played the butler, Carson, in Downton Abbey. “I did most of it on my bum. Am I pleased with my run? I got down to the bottom, I didn’t win the cheese, but I got down. The moral of this is quit while you are ahead. I’ve got the mud and a few scrapes and cuts and I’ll enjoy watching other people do it from now on” – TV adventurer Ben Fogle, above,

after taking part in the “deathdefying” cheese-rolling event at

Brockworth, Gloucestershire. “I’ve talked to the producers casually and I think the problem they would have is, how would I do it, because if I did it in a frock would I have a male partner? Because when I dance – I like dancing – I dance as a man, I feel very male. I’m not going to dance in high heels” – Cross-dressing award-winning potter Grayson Perry, on the possibility that he may become a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing. “I hate it. God, I hate watching it now, I can’t stand it really” – Poldark star Aidan Turner is no fan of Strictly Come Dancing.