Words of the week

“Everything else in my life was very open and honest, so why not the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me? Falling in love with the love of your life is something I want to shout from the rooftops and celebrate” – singer Emeli Sandé on coming out.

“I am both excited and nervous to contemplate writing a memoir, because it’s hard to remember what happened the day before yesterday. But here I go!” – Henry Winkler, aka The Fonz, on writing a memoir.

“Can you get my wife out of here before she gets broody?” – the Duke of Cambridge jokes about wife Kate on a school visit where she cuddled a baby.

“… I think you will see first hand that there’s not this massive use for food banks in this country but generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can’t cook a meal from scratch. They cannot budget” – Tory MP

Lee Anderson inviting Labour MPs to his local food bank.

“However great our compassion and ingenuity, we cannot simply spend our way out of this problem” – Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the cost-of-living crisis.

“As a young kid, I didn’t realise my parents had mental health issues. I just thought my dad was a drug addict and my mum loved cleaning” – Fitness expert Joe Wicks.

“I’ve spent my lifetime being mistaken for other people, because a lot of people struggle to compute the idea that there’s more than one brown-faced person on the telly” – news presenter Krishnan GuruMurthy.

“I was in some (Tesco) stores on Friday and I was hearing for the first time for many years of customers saying to checkout staff ‘stop when you get to £40, I don’t want to spend a penny over that’” – Tesco chairman John Allan on the difficulties faced by customers.

“My personal goal for this is to sing with the same intention that I always sing with, and then come away with the joy that it has given me” – Sam Ryder on how he will approach his performance as this year’s UK Eurovision entry.

“I am intense. Everything is to me extremely important. Every beat” – Hollywood actress Sissy Spacek.