THEY SAID WHAT?

“It will be a challenge, the one thing I am already telling myself is that it is only for a few weeks rather than the four-and-a-half years I spent prison”

– Former derivatives banker Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who caused the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995, on being a Celebrity Big Brother housemate.

“I don ‘t know which of the royals it is going to be. I don’t know if it is Queenie. I suppose it is whoever is still alive or available”

– Actress Dame Emma Thompson looks forward to her forthcoming investiture.

“I get on my motor bike or my mountain bike and exercise my masculinity, like I’m taking my dog for a walk”

– Cross-dressing potter Grayson

Perry. “I once had a physical liaison under the Cutty Sark”

– Comedian Frank Skinner, above, on his London secret.

“It’s happening! I’m taking part in Strictly Come Dancing this year and my mother is going to explode”

– Journalist and documentary presenter Stacey Dooley on being named as a contestant in the BBC hit show.

“It would be a mistake we would regret for generations, if we had a messy, ugly divorce, and would inevitably change British attitudes towards Europe”

– Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

on a no-deal Brexit.

“That’s when I found out money doesn’t buy you manners and it definitely doesn’t make you a nice person”

– Remain activist Gina Miller recalls her time as a chambermaid at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne.