"When Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness entered the room, you were expected to stand up. They were senior military, they were top brass. They were lordly, this pair, always operating psychological games on me, always" Peter Mandelson describes his dealings with Sinn F�in when he was Northern secretary

"Sometimes I think he is so arrogant and pompous. He is so argumentative, but he doesn't have any musical integrity" Louis Walsh on Simon Cowell who sacked him as a judge on The X Factor

"I have a rule: I won't date anyone young enough to be my son" Cilla Black