It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns.
That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.
You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don’t eat much.
I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I’m selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think – and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad – I could never be my own girlfriend!
Normally if I go to one of these things I’m in and out in five minutes, but at Pride of Britain I stay to the end. It’s a fantastic show. But it’s incredibly hard on the night when you meet all the kids and hear their stories. They do get to you.
I didn’t realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?
It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
I don’t mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die.
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
I can’t think of one person who is on TV who isn’t vain. It’s the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?
Being different is good; embrace it.
I was so tired, wasn’t having fun any more, and wasn’t sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up – I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you’re 2, whether you’re 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is – juggling, magic, singing – this is the show you can enter. It’s as simple as that.
There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.
You don’t go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn’t make it.
If you’ve got a big mouth and you’re controversial, you’re going to get attention.
I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don’t care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.