THEY SAID WHAT?

“I actually don’t know how much I have. I couldn’t even really guess. It doesn’t really motivate me too much. It makes you comfortable, that’s the good thing about it, I think. I’m glad it’s there but I’m not really that focused on it”

– Harry Potter star Rupert Grint, who

is reported to be worth £28m.

“I did the take probably 450 times and I cried every single time. I defy anyone not to cry”

– Actor Nicholas Hoult, who does a voice-over in a new adaptation of the best-selling novel Watership Down.

“Everything about it is completely bonkers, the jungle itself is beautiful, the studio is beautiful, but apart from that everything else is mad, everything wants to bite you but I’ve loved it, I’ve really really loved it”

– TV’s Holly Willoughby, pictured, on

hosting I’m A Celebrity. “Whenever I am filming around the country I try to make time to go into a school and give out copies of my books. So I’d want to improve access to reading and safeguard libraries”

– Entertainer and best-selling author David Walliams, who would like to pass a law to improve children’s literacy.

“You can’t get the toothpaste back in the tube, you can never go back. We just have to cope with the chaos of modern living – too much information, too many mad people in charge. It’s a spooky world”

– Downton Abbey star Jim Carter saying that the series is a haven in

the chaotic world of today.

“The Brexiteers, they call us traitors. I refute that charge. We are the British patriots, we are the ones fighting for Britain’s national self-interest. It is the Brexiteers who seek to belittle us, to undermine our influence, to slam windows, close doors with unrealistic claims of freedom and the delusions of sovereignty”

– Lord Heseltine, a leading Remainer.

“I hope people can spend less time on their phones. I love the benefits that technology has given us, but nothing beats a lively conversation and huge laughs” – Sir Elton John on his hopes for 2019.