THEY SAID WHAT?

“Oh yeah, I’m a big fan. I think we should be bringing people together. I think we should take care of everybody”

- Actor Danny DeVito urging people to vote for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at the next election.

“I will eat one Christmas pudding once a month, I know people who hate them and know that I love them, so I get them in the January sales. They’re literally throwing them at you like footballs out of the door” - Actor Richard E Grant.

“Stamping her kitten heels ... it’s like she’s some sort of Trump wannabe” - Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry on Prime Minister Theresa May. “I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well-behaved and boring”

- Actress Helena Bonham Carter, above.

“I’d answer the question first before challenging its truth”

- A teacher’s comment in Sir Paul McCartney’s school exercise book, now up for auction.

“Wriggling drives me insane: a good night’s sleep is the bedrock for everything ... The anxiety goes down, the household is happier, I’m a better wife, I’m a better mother. I can write better”

- TV fashion guru Susannah Constantine explains why she and her husband sleep in separate beds.

“What I like about Theresa May is that she reminds me of one of my headmistresses”

- Dame Joan Collins.

“I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible”

- Actress Rachel Weisz.