Western Morning News (Saturday)
The things they say
“I wish I had gone to university, I wish I’d had that experience”
– Adele, who says she plans to study for an English literature
degree. “I’m not sure my father was terribly keen on it but I think he thought it was a phase I was going through. I suppose I’m still going through that phase, 40 years later”
– Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.
“Join the 21st century – trans people exist. I exist”
– comedian Eddie Izzard.
“Thank you very much girls for inspiring my daughter and making her kick a ball around again with her dad. For me personally, having a daughter, I want her to look up to inspiring people... They inspired a whole generation, a new generation.”
– David Beckham thanks the Lionesses for their impact on women’s football, including his daughter Harper. “I have no grand plan. I’m just winging it.”
– Actor Eddie Redmayne.
“I just get so sweaty, your hair goes and your make-up goes. A very kind offer but it does not work”
– Kym Marsh said the team at Waterloo Road offered her a space to practice her Strictly Come Dancing routines, but she declined because her make-up would need redoing. “This idea that a black woman must be angry when we all know sometimes things make you feel angry or sad or hurt or upset and that’s not a gender or racially specific feeling. Yet this trope of the angry black woman, it persists, and... it was being reinforced constantly in ways we hadn’t even realised”
– The Duchess of Sussex said she worries about how her behaviour might be perceived by others due to the trope of “the angry black woman”.