QUOTES of the week

‘I did this really silly thing. I was honest in the interview.’

Money-saving expert Martin Lewis says he was turned down for a seat in the Lords after telling the panel he may not have enough time to attend many sittings.

‘You have to grow a very thick skin. Now I’ve got a skin like a crocodile.’ Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood on finding fame in middle age.

‘I was this tiny geeky kid, with darkish skin and I had pretty much racist abuse although… I’m as English as they come.’

Gary Lineker reveals how he was bullied at school and during his football career.

‘On the picket line at the Seven Sisters depot. (But don’t tell Keir Starmer.)’

Diane Abbott tweets on the first day of the rail strike – she was one of more than 20 Labour MPs to defy their party leader to join the industrial action.

‘I felt like I was in a movie… to win this, and to have the cheese in my hands.’

Abby Lampe, 21, who travelled over 4,000 miles from North Carolina to win the 2022 cheese-rolling championship, tumbling down Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire in just 15 seconds.

‘I consider myself on my last leg, this last semester or trimester.’ Brad Pitt, 58, muses on life with GQ magazine.

‘We don’t count ourselves as good musicians so I suppose we’re all entertainers. But we don’t entertain much

’cos we just stand there.’ John Lennon queries just how good The Beatles are in a newly unearthed interview before a gig in Hull in 1964.

‘I went in even faster than when I was going for Olympic medals.’ Swimming coach and former Olympian Andrea Fuentes after she leapt into the water to rescue US synchronised swimmer Anita Alvarez who fainted at the World Championships in Hungary.

‘We need to get to Glastonbury, not joking. Has anyone got a private jet?’

Indie band Wolf Alice’s plea for help after their BA flight from Los Angeles was cancelled. They later arrived in time to complete their set.