QUOTES of the week

‘He could be somewhat sharp in pricking what he thought to be bubbles of pomposity or sycophancy.’

The Right Reverend David Conner, Dean of Windsor, pays tribute to Prince Philip at his memorial service. ‘Wow! Wow! Will

Smith just smacked the s*** out of me.’ Comedian Chris Rock who was slapped by the actor at the Oscars after a joke about Smith’s wife Jada. ‘Introverted egomaniac.’ Sir Terry Wogan describes himself in a recently unearthed 1980 interview. ‘Dear sons. Thank you for my lovely tea towel but what I really want is a daughter. Love Mum.’ TV presenter Anneka Rice

tweets on Mother’s Day.

‘After being told you’re a better cure for insomnia than warm milk, I’m amazed I ever got back in front of the camera.’ Actress Kristin Scott Thomas recalls her disastrous 1986 film debut in Under The Cherry Moon.

‘Are we dying?’

Roman Abramovich after being poisoned with a chemical agent at the Ukraine-Russia peace talks. ‘TikTots.’

Ofcom’s tag for children as young as five who are using social media, despite rules that users must be over 13. ‘Trigger warning:

It’s got Northern in it.’ Theatre company Northern Broadsides’ tongue-in-cheek tweet after an audience member stormed out of its performance of As You Like It in York because it featured Yorkshire accents. ‘Apparently, your ears and nose carry on growing. If that’s true, I am in massive trouble.’ Top model David Gandy fears for his good looks. ‘Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Or, as Keir Starmer would put it, people who are assigned female or male at birth.’ Boris Johnson to a Tory dinner after the Labour leader failed to answer the question: Can a woman have a penis?