THEY SAID WHAT?

“Message! Cooking on This Morning is going to be dope, but I’ll need to graft hard if my infamous eggs are to live up to the hype for Love Island fans Eamonn and Ruth”

- Love Island star Ovie Soko, who will show off his culinary skills on This Morning when he cooks brunch for hosts Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford.

“In a lot of farther-flung places in Scotland people are guarded at first, but as soon as they get to know you they really hate you”

- Comedian Frankie Boyle, who is to tour his native Scotland for the first time in more than 10 years.

“I’ve spent 15 years hanging around in Spandex. I’m OK! Costume is not a problem”

- Olympic rowing gold medallist James Cracknell on joining Strictly Come Dancing. “Being with children keeps you vibrant, sharp and active - because you have to be to keep up with them!”

- TV presenter Julia Bradbury, above, who had her children later in life

“Don’t forget that 70%-80% of the people we arrest, disrupt or commit an attack here, are born and raised here. Born or at least raised here. That has got to tell us something about our society - that we have got to look at why they would be prepared to do that”

- Britain’s head of counter-terror

policing, Neil Basu.

“It seems that just watching the gulls will reduce the chance of them snatching your food”

- Dr Neeltje Boogert, on research showing that staring at seagulls makes them less likely to steal your chips.

“We lived a 10-year band life in three years. We became very belligerent. It was always us against the record company”

- Marc Almond, of electronic pop

group Soft Cell.