THEY SAID WHAT?

“I’m going to have to start going to the gym, and I can’t drink any more, that’s for sure”

- YouTube star Joe Sugg, named as a Strictly Come Dancing contestant, saying he has never danced while sober.

“It is like putting on your slippers and wrapping up in your duvet. You’re home. I’ve really missed the cast and crew”

- Actress Chizzy Akudolu on returning, temporarily, to the cast of the TV series Holby City.

“I will happily do extra exercise to allow myself a cream cake”

- British decathlon hero Daley Thompson, now aged 60.

“Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road”

- Author Robert Harris. “I went to Paris to get one tattoo. Then I ended up getting five. Fun day”

- Supermodel Lily Cole, above.

“I just don’t have time to get old”

- Singer Dolly Parton.

“Without remedial action, the prospects for nearly half a generation of children are today in tatters, with Westminster and Holyrood governments shamefully ignoring this national disgrace and the silent suffering and sorrows of left-out millions”

- Former prime minister Gordon

Brown on child poverty.

“Theatre can be like someone you are initially glad to meet, but then starts droning on and on”

- Theatre pundit Peter Brook, aged 93.