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“A man - hairy or not - should still spend time on personal hygiene.”
“In my romantic Shangri-La, I'm loved for me. They accept my faults and think, 'He works too hard, he can be difficult, but he's great.'”
“I'm happy to tell the whole world everything about me because I want people to like me.”
“I think it's a class thing. There are people that would honestly think Pret a Manger is healthier than Greggs. Why?”
“The most important thing for a date is not to prepare anything too complex because you're likely to be a little bit too stressed. Also, she's there to see you and not your plate of food. Spend as little time in the kitchen as possible.”
“If I have to fly economy, there is no way I am flying more than two and a half hours. I am just not doing long-haul economy flights. I did it once to the Caribbean and never again.”
“When I was young, airports were quite a nice place to be - people put nice clothes on to fly - but now it is like a bus station. It is horrendous.”
“I travel business and I fly business personally.”
“Food is the only snobbery allowed. Imagine pulling up in your expensive car alongside somebody at the lights with a cheap car and saying, 'Is that all you've got?' But people do it with food.”
“I really want to help people because it seems to be there's this mental block and people think in order to lose weight you have to give up things in your life that are good - and that just isn't true. They feel like they've got to turn themselves into a monk.”
“You know, I've been bald since I was 18. I started losing my hair at 17 and I've been completely bald since 20 years old.”
“Every household down my road in Peckham, south-east London, stunk of deep-fat frying and I'm sure every working-class home around the country was the same. How would you have done chips and Spam fritters without a deep-fat fryer?”
“I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.”
“Don't want to be so fat? Then eat fewer calories - it really is that simple.”
“I have a very spartan flat in London, and when they see it people say: 'Why don't you make it more homely?' The reason is that it's just a place to sleep when I'm working.”
“I hate food evangelists.”
“Everybody loves a picnic in the sunshine. It was always so magical when we were kids.”
“I'm a technophobe, I just don't understand it.”
“Mum bought our dinners from Bejams, a frozen food centre. We had a huge chest freezer, back in the 70s and we filled it chockablock with frozen stuff.”
“I'm a real security addict and I've always channelled far too much of my life into accumulating money.”