A biography for Claudia Winklemanhasn’t been written yet.
“There's no doubt a bit of chicken in a creamy mushroom sauce with a side order of garlic mash will put a smile on your face.”
“I have always been a little bit forgetful.”
“Look, I just read out loud for a living. Most of my friends are doctors or lawyers, people I went to university with, they're on the train at 7 A.M. and don't get home until 7 P.M. They work bloody hard, and they're allowed to be overwhelmed. I don't think I'm allowed, really.”
“Top-flight football players are a strange bunch.”
“There's no fun in relationships. OK - that's not strictly true. I will agree that the first bit can be not totally unpleasant. There's the initial meeting and the heart quickening and the stomach-churning excitement of it all.”
“I never go to parties. I never go to premieres. You can't play that game, because it's short-lived and you want a life.”
“Seriously, Jamie Cullum could be the smallest person on the planet. He might be lovely and charming and you might think we all should spend more time talking about his piano-playing techniques but, seriously, have you seen how short he is?”
“I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.”
“If I could grow my fringe down to my shoulders to cover my entire face and occasionally peer out to answer questions I would. It's my beauty security blanket.”
“I make a good roast chicken.”
“A dark room with some low-level whale music and a flat bed and a woman pulling your shoulder back and forth is a happy place.”
“There's nothing quite as perfect as going to a dark room where you can eat fattening food next to the man you love. OK. All right. Like. The man you like.”
“Indeed, 'Sex and the City' highlighted the importance of female friendships, and showed the world that it was hip to be single.”
“All my life, I have avoided any sort of exercise. I don't enjoy sweating and I think people who show off about having just done 20 press-ups are pretty weird.”
“My husband thinks I'm insane.”
“I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'”
“Who actually enjoys skiing? Come on, even Olympic ski masters, even James Bond, think that dressing up in all that fluorescent, insulated kit and having to manoeuvre down a mountain in the freezing cold is no way to spend leisure time.”
“Left to their own devices, men would wear trainers with a pair of stonewashed jeans and would think nothing of throwing on a donkey jacket.”
“On 'Richard And Judy' I dressed up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.”
“My mum raised me in a home without mirrors. She's a staunch feminist and wanted us to know that what we look like is the least interesting thing about us.”