QUOTES OF THE WEEK

‘You don’t have to like my songs but it’s f ***** up to try to discredit my writing. PS, I wrote this tweet all by myself in case you were wondering.’

Taylor Swift, pictured, hits back at Blur’s Damon Albarn after he claimed she did not write her own songs. He later apologised.

‘If you want to be a movie star that’s what you have to weigh. I wasn’t up for that

– I mean, I really like potatoes.’

Atonement star Romola Garai, who refused to fit the

Hollywood ideal of staying under 8½st. ‘They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.

Singer Neil Young threatens to remove his music from Spotify in a row over allowing its star podcaster Joe Rogan to ‘spread fake information’. ‘Just stop using my name as click-bait.’

Morrissey uses an open letter to tell his former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr to stop talking about him. ‘I haven’t had a career, just a series of incidents. I’ve been dogged by good luck all my life.’

Comedian Barry Cryer, who has died aged 86, sums up his fortunes in 1998.

‘Nancy Nervous isn’t welcome here but Catherine Calm is welcome any time.’

Dawn French reveals director Kenneth Branagh’s soothing words to her on the set of Death On The Nile.

‘I’m not going out like Mr Big.’

Billions character Mike ‘Wags’ Wagner, who also sufferered a heart attack like the And Just Like That... star after a Peloton bike workout.