THEY SAID WHAT?

“I am a bit of an acquired taste”

– Broadcaster Piers Morgan.

“They’re not all idiots. One of them’s an A&E doctor”

– EastEnders star Danny Dyer on the Love Island contestants.

“I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is grey and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a “Miss” contest”

– Actress Jane Seymour.

“It’s brain-numbing, it’s difficult, and no one really respects you in the house”

– Jools Oliver who says that her role as a stay-at-home mother is 10 times harder than the job of her husband chef Jamie Oliver, whose response to her comments, she says, has been, “Whatever”. “I’m attracted to men and also to women. If I bring a woman home, or a man, we don’t even have to have the discussion”

– Actress Tessa Thompson.

“If the Brexit talks are a match and if we are roughly at half time... right at the moment I don’t think the British have been playing very well. We are accepting effectively being talked down to and dictated to by Michel Barnier, chief Brexit negotiator. We are forever dancing to his tune and it is about time that the British Government started to come back with some good positive initiatives”

– Former Ukip leader Nigel

Farage.

“In the World Cup, when players argue with the ref, what language do they use?”

– Mike West, of Eastleigh, Hampshire, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph.