THEY SAID WHAT?

“Everything hurts now. I’ve got to really start thinking about if I can manage this again and the answer is probably no”

– Actor Christian Bale who piled on the pounds to play former US vice-president Dick Cheney in a new film.

“If I were to die in an accident climbing, not necessarily falling free soloing but in any kind of climbing accident, it wouldn’t be that shocking as a professional climber who is doing things at the edge of climbing”

– Alex Honnold, the only climber to scale the 3,000ft sheer granite wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without ropes.

“I’m glad that it happened this way, because otherwise I would never have known that I am not crazy”

– Actress Rebecca Humphries who dumped her boyfriend, comedian Seann Walsh, when he was caught kissing his Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones. “OK, I admit it, I have a little political crush on Jeremy Corbyn”

– Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, above.

“If only we could be married”

– Entertainer and author David Walliams pines after the already happily married Joanna Lumley.

“I resolved, like Gandhi, to be the change I wanted to see. I have not only laid off the Mars bars, I have axed the cheese. I breakfast like some Georgian hermit on porridge with a luxury sprinkling of nuts. At drinks parties I guzzle water and marvel at the Pinteresque slowness with which we come to the point. Is it working? You bet it is”

– Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson is determined to slim

down.