What the celebs are talking about this week
“Baby is beautiful, mummy’s a legend, sisters are over the moon. Dad’s a mess!”
Anthony McPartlin thanked fans for their messages of love and well wishes as he welcomed his first child with his wife, Anne-Marie Corbett, joining her two daughters from her previous marriage.
“Yes. Full stop. Mind your own business.”
TV presenter Anne Robinson confirmed her relationship with the Queen’s ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, in typical acerbic style...
“It’s a chance to show off. People said to me: ‘Are you on drugs?’ Only one… and it’s called laughter and the joy of people laughing, it thrills you.”
Veteran comedian Jimmy Tarbuck is still entertaining crowds after 60 years in showbusiness, and reckons being on stage is the biggest high of all.
“They say you see your life flash before your eyes just before you pass away. It was a bit like that, except, fortunately for me, I’m not dead yet.”
Watching his career retrospective Thank You, Goodnight was an emotional experience for rocker Jon Bon Jovi. We’re surprised he didn’t just call it It’s My Life!
“I think of the song as a gift from God. When I first heard the Mark Ronson/Amy Winehouse version I told them ‘I don’t think it’s going to do very well, because we just had a massive hit with it and lightning doesn’t strike twice’. But it did.”
A slight understatement from The Zutons songwriter Dave McCabe, who reckons someone was looking down on him when he wrote two-time hit song Valerie.
“There is no nice metaphorical way to deal with fascism. It’s time to make movies relevant. It’s time to make movies political again.”
Director Ali Abbasi isn’t being subtle when it comes to the message of his controversial movie The Apprentice, a biopic about Donald Trump.
“I had the earliest call time of my life: 1.45am. I’d be like, ‘I just wrapped! What do you mean?! It’s a mistake!’”
Anya Taylor-Joy wasn’t a fan of the early starts when filming action epic Furiosa in the Australian desert.