THEY SAID WHAT?

“The art of political oratory is to say nothing passionately”

– Former Labour MP Austin Mitchell.

“If there were a cure for Asperger’s, I don’t know if I’d want it. Humanity has prospered because of people with autistic traits. Without them, we wouldn’t have put man on the moon or be running software programs. If we wiped out all the autistic people on the planet, I don’t know how much longer the human race would last”

– Springwatch star Chris Packham, a sufferer from the condition.

“Libido returns when you step off the career treadmill”

– Rowan Pelling, founder of The Amorist, a magazine aimed at “devotees of love and passion” on the pleasures of sex for women in their fifties. “It was not so much the fast and the furious as stationary and panicking. I could not get it started. It was fight or flight”

– Comedian Michael McIntyre, above, recalls being robbed of his watch by moped criminals while he was in his car.

“It has been so busy in the last couple of years. I wouldn’t do things for the sake of working, it’s just that great things have come up. I can’t not do Paddington and I can’t not do Mary Poppins. I keep getting offered great work. I wouldn’t kill myself over it, but it has been good”

– Actress Dame Julie Walters.

“I think this book is bigger than the Bible. And do you know why? Because this is going to spread cheer like the Bible”

– The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins does not suffer from undue modesty as she promotes her new volume The GC: How To Be A Diva.