QUOTES OF THE WEEK

‘I am f***ing furious and I don’t give a f*** anymore.’

Deputy chief whip of the British Conservative party after the shambolic fracas in the House of Commons over a vote on fracking.

‘I am a fighter, not a quitter.’

Liz Truss in the House of Commons. She quit the next day.

‘Possibly the worst idea I’ve heard of.

William Hague, former leader of the Conservative party reacts to the possible return for Boris Johnson as a replacement for Liz Truss.

I hate that Brad Pitt.’

Geena Davis recalls George Clooney’s words of frustration that Pitt, pictured, was cast opposite her in Thelma & Louise rather than him.

‘I want to go to live games again.’

Des Cahill, on why he is leaving RTÉ’s The Sunday Game after 15 years.

‘I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks and little substance. That’s how it felt for me at the time, being reduced to this specific archetype, the word bimbo.’

Meghan Markle on her stint as a ‘briefcase girl’ on the US version of Deal Or No Deal.

‘I have reconnected with President Putin… He sent me 20 bottles of vodka and a really sweet letter. I responded with 20 bottles of Lambrusco and a similarly sweet letter.’ Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is caught on tape boasting about being in contact with Vladimir Putin.