QUOTES of the week

‘BBC rules mean that Carrie Gracie can’t discuss Carrie Gracie if Carrie Gracie is presenting the programme discussing Carrie Gracie.’ Today editor Sarah Sands quotes a tweet after the BBC presenter is stopped from covering her gender pay row. ‘I’ve handed over more than you f ****** earn but I’m still left with more than anybody else, and that seems to me entirely just.’ John Humphrys is caught off-air appearing to mock the BBC pay dispute. ‘Black pudding saved my life… It was solid, pointed and I could get plenty of weight behind it.’ Butcher Chris McCabe, who used a frozen Scots black pudding to help him escape from a walk-in freezer. ‘I get angry about the crying, then sad about being angry, and then guilty. The emotions are insane.’ Tennis star Serena Williams describes her trials as a firsttime mother. ‘For men in the room tonight, this is the first time in three months it won’t be terrifying to hear your name read out.’ Golden Globes host Seth Meyers opens the ceremony with a joke as the Hollywood sex scandal continues. ‘We need people who are capable of duffing up the Queen’s enemies.’ Major General Tim Cross reacts after the Army launches a new campaign that tells recruits it is OK to cry. ‘Picture him chasing me around his hotel room in his tighty-whities.’ Ex-porn star Stephanie Clifford, who claims to have had a sexual liaison with Donald Trump in 2006 – he denies the allegation. ‘I’ve accepted the soul-stretching, patternbreaking opportunities that are made possible

by intimacy.’ Gwyneth Paltrow – famous for her ‘conscious uncoupling’ from Chris Martin – reveals she is to marry for a second time.