THEY SAID WHAT?

“I’m a city rat turned country mouse” - entertainer and animal lover Paul O’Grady, who has left London to live in rural Kent.

“Sometimes we get a reminder that we’re not invincible and this was certainly mine. It was a huge shock” - TV’s Simon Cowell, who fainted and fell down the stairs.

“I do not believe that this situation can be tolerated any longer. It is simply not fair on staff, many of whom are young and in their first job post-education” - the Prime Minister on tackling allegations of sexual harassment at the House of Commons.

“I’m not conventionally pretty and I’m also quite coarse, and I’ve also got a very big mouth, and if anyone had tried that with me I would have probably head-butted them and reported them to the police” - actress and film director Kathy Burke, above, when asked if she had suffered sexual harassment during her career.

“During my time as an MP I never mastered the capacity to leave a good impression or sculpt my public image in 140 characters” - Gordon Brown, former Labour prime minister.

“It’s very nice to know that something has definitively ended. I think the audience deserves to have a proper ending - like a flourish at the end of a symphony” - actor Martin Shaw, who plays detective George Gently in a TV series about to end with a dramatic concluding episode.