Richard Bacon

“I regret that I don't have more fear. If I had, I'd have been more focused. But I'd have had less fun.”

“I loved watching 'Blue Peter' as a kid, and I loved working on it.”

“I have a real interest in current affairs.”

“I started in radio and just developed a huge affection for it.”

“I've just always tried to get myself involved in projects that are interesting and talked to the right people.”

“I think I've just worked really hard.”

“I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't live in London.”

“It's the one thing 'Blue Peter' has in common with the LAPD, they make you give back your badge.”

“I have always been driven by wanting to have adventures.”

“I'm more interested in history and culture than art.”

“I don't drink most of the time and I do have the odd drink here and there. I try to manage it. It is probably delusional to think that that is sustainable.”

“Everybody likes to have a laugh.”

“I just think I look like a kids' TV presenter with grey hair. I was one once briefly.”

“It's a precarious game, telly.”

“I don't really want to be taking constituency meetings talking to locals about their burst pipes, which is the reality of a lot of MPs' work.”

“Most days I love it here. But I do have the odd day where I think, 'Why am I living in L.A.?' I wouldn't pretend it has the richness of London.”

“When you're an addict you end up lying and the lies find you out.”

“I almost don't know how we all get through life knowing that we're going to die and, if you're an atheist, that there is nothing.”

“If someone loses their job when they are 25 because of what they tweeted when they were 15, that isn't reasonable. It doesn't allow for that person growing up, seeing the world in a different way, and changing. We have to hold them to account for how they are now, not for the version of themselves 10 years ago.”

“By constantly describing things as part of cancel culture when they aren't, we are making it seem bigger than it is.”