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"It was a jolly chat, cut
off just as it was getting started."
Actor Timothy
Spall on his two minute chat whilst picking up
his OBE from The Queen.
July
2000
"While the world is
obsessed with the enlargement of breasts, I've considered
the reverse."
TV beauty Ulrika
Jonsson, in a comment guaranteed to horrify TV
bosses and her legion of male fans.
June 2000
"..these are two
consonants and a vowel I'm very proud of."
Countdown
hostess, Carol Vorderman, on her MBE
award in the Queen's Birthday honours.
June
2000
"I call her the Volvo of
cookery teachers - Miss Side Impact Bar."
Chef Anthony
Worrall Thompson, on fellow cookery expert Delia Smith.
May
2000
"I may have had my say in
the past, but there's plenty more to come."
Veteran
television campaigner, Mary Whitehouse,
90, who despite having to sell her home to fund nursing
home fees, shows no sign of mellowing in her old age.
May
2000
"It is a nouveau riche
attempt at recreating the appeal of York and it doesn't
work."
Businessman
in Monkgate, York, on the £100,000 neo-Gothic
conservatory erected by BBC2's Home Front design expert,
Peter Plaskitt, at his home in the shadow of York
Minster. He has been ordered to dismantle it as it
doesn't have planning permission.
May
2000
"I'm always very, very
sorry when that happens - I don't set out to upset people
but you can get it so wrong sometimes."
Changing Rooms star, Laurence
Llewelyn-Bowen, following a flood of anonymous
death threats to him and his family
"You're a w****r who
f***s up people's lives."
Anonymous telephone
threat to
Laurence
Llewelyn-Bowen.
March 2000
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