THEY SAID WHAT?

“I’m being very, very nice, but at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty”

– President Trump’s warning to Republican Senator John McCain, who questioned “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in America’s foreign policy

“There is a man in the White House who lies consistently and pathologically and is an open and avowed racist, and misogynist, and sexual predator”

– Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs, pictured, attacks President Trump

“If I did something in The Thick Of It where the letters fall off behind the Prime Minister, I would cut that as being too silly. I would have thought: ‘That’s not believable”’

– satirist Armando Iannucci

“The snatch was not even competently done. It was as if Channel 4 long ago had bought the Beatles but forgotten to contract John and Paul”

– Lord Birt criticises Channel 4 over the take over of The Great British Bake-Off

“The elderly are put in old folks’ homes which cost a fortune in the first place and all they think is: ‘My grandmother is bleeding me dry’, they don’t think: ‘I still love her”’

– dancer Wayne Sleep on those who put their aged relatives in care homes

“You should come into space with me”

– Actor Brian Blessed, who hopes to blast into space next year, issues an invitation to the Duchess of Cornwall

“I am ashamed to say that I go to the theatre maybe once every 10 years. I know that makes me a disgrace as an actor and that I should go and should love it, but I can’t bear it”

– Hugh Grant