Would you rather everything you said was printed in the newspapers, or that everything you thought was broadcast on the radio?
Alas, some poor celebrities don't get the choice – here's a selection of what the great, the good and the just plain infamous said in 2008:
- "She's not great at goalkeeping" – David Beckham on wife Victoria.
- "I'm over the hill but nobody prepared me for what was going to be on the other side." – Jane Fonda.
- "People know I have no taste. No style. No class. If I have any class, it's all low. No matter how I dress, I'm still going to look cheap. I'd rather be a cartoon than a genius." – Dolly Parton.
- "Every time I went for a cup of tea, he was on the drums. You couldn't get the bugger off" – Ringo Starr recalling how fellow Beatle Paul McCartney used to annoy him.
- "There's an inexhaustible supply. No one needs to pay for sex. It is stalking the corridors of power, hitching up its skirt, delighted to be asked, and wives who try to forget it are nuts" – Life in the House of Commons by former Tory MP Edwina Currie, who famously had an affair with John Major.
- "I seem to have a particular liking for blondes. The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes" – singer Rod Stewart.
- "I wouldn't be seen dead with a woman old enough to be my wife" – octogenarian Tony Curtis.
- "I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer in Paris and woke up in Corsica" – Peter O'Toole.
- "If you are going to insult me any more I will walk out. I can put up with a lot, but you are going too far" – Sir Elton John, when asked if he dyed his hair.
- "Old people that buy in bulk – how stupid is that? You are 96 years old and you are buying 18 jars of mayonnaise. You are going to be dead before you hit the checkout" – Joan Rivers.
- "The great thing about your last journey is that you don't have to pack" – ex-Labour MP Tony Benn quoting his grandmother on the subject of death.
- "My successor will bloody well have to be younger. They don't need some knackered old war-horse" – Fiona Phillips, on leaving GMTV.
- "I suppose if you pay someone 60,000 quid or more every week, they are bound, in the end, to suffer some sort of mental delusion and believe that they are worth that sort of money. Especially if they have the IQ of a meat and potato pie" – broadcaster Rod Liddle on Premiership footballers.
- "Why did nobody notice it? If these things were so large, how come everyone missed them?" – the Queen on the credit crunch.
- "I am no longer at risk of being called a bloody nuisance. I am a bloody nuisance" – The Prince of Wales.
- "I am not ginger. I am auburn. That's what I have been told" – Prince Harry.
- "I'm sure that somebody who has laid bricks for 50 years is pretty confident about their job. I'm no different" – actor/ director Clint Eastwood, 78.
The full article contains 531 words and appears in Evening Courier newspaper.
