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TELLING IT LIKE IT IS

'If preserving the environment means stopping poor people flying so only the rich can fly, then screw it'

'Please ... tell your friends, relatives and restaurant owners that foie gras is a disease, not a delicacy'

'I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black'

'The point is that young people are the same as they always were: they are just as ignorant'

'Everybody goes on about Gordon Brown being intelligent. I'm one of the few people who's read the only book he's written ... it's rubbish'

'I don't even know what religion I am. I think I might be Church of England'

CORRIDORS OF POWER

'The truth is if I hadn't had the funding from the state to go to university, I would have worked in a shop'

'When you have been in politics as long as I have, you can smell and feel when it is time to step away'

'I won't answer to this so-called court'

'All politicians are like crazed wasps in a jam jar, each individually convinced that they are going to make it'

'I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury'

'God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan', and I did. Then God would tell me, 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq', and I did'

OH, SISTERS!

'As Henry VIII said to his wives, I won't keep you long'

'Of course I don't have a stylist. Surely anyone can dress themselves

at 53'

'Women do not make it to the top because they wimp out ... they are crap'

'I feel great ... We are getting the nursery together and I'm learning how to knit'

'Everybody has made mistakes in their life. This song says everything I want to say'

'I would never live with anyone again. Maybe on the same street, but that's it'

NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOWBUSINESS

'The public perception of me is ... fast cars, likes women, and doesn't do any work. I do work, I haven't got a girlfriend and I've hardly driven a car all year'

'It's all very showbiz backstage. I'm standing here with Joe Pasquale'

'Being famous gives me the creeps'

'We are 13.7 billion light years from the edge of the observable universe ... with the available information I predict I will always be with you'

'I learnt all my storytelling from soaps " Crossroads and Coronation Street in particular'

'You shouldn't believe anything actors say. It's all bollocks'

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: 1 D (Miachael O'Leary, Ryanair CEO). 2 E (Roger Moore). 3 F (Joan Rivers). 4 C (Prince Philip). 5 A (David Starkey, historian). 6 B (Jamie Oliver). CORRIDORS OF POWER: 1 C (Cherie Booth QC). 2 D (David Blunkett). 3 E (Saddam Hussein). 4 A (Boris Johnson). 5 F (George Galloway MP). 6 B (George Bush). oh, sISTERS!: 1 B (Tony Blair). 2 C (Sharon Osbourne). 3 F (Neil French, advertising boss). 4 A (Katie Holmes). 5 D (Joss Stone). 6 E (Cameron Diaz). NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS: 1 B (Jay Kay). 2 F (Fearne Cotton). 3 E (Ricky Gervais). 4 C (Katie Melua). 5 D (Andrea Levy, author). 6 A (Nigel Havers).

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