Richard Bacon

“We live in a town in which people believe in therapy in Los Angeles.”

“I can breathe out of my eye.”

“There is no nutritional value in trick or treating.”

“I was doing a daytime show on Fox. And, it was a lovely team of people, but it didn't challenge me.”

“My professional rehabilitation has felt complete for a long time.”

“News isn't simply debating a statement from the Commons - it is now often about television and popular culture within a broader remit of news.”

“I think there is a slight nerdy quality about me and radio is the nerdiest of all mediums. But to be nerdy about a profession means you love it.”

“I'm actually a very optimistic person - I get very excited by things and I'm very positive.”

“No matter what I go on to do in my career - I could bring peace to the Middle East - still, when I die, the top line of the obituary will be 'fired from 'Blue Peter.'"”

“I wouldn't go back to Malaga. There's something about that part of Spain - it's very arid and I don't find it very appealing.”

“I like the fact the BBC allows you to criticise the BBC without firing you.”

“If we can break the association between sweets and treats we can set our children on the path to a healthier life.”

“I have a huge amount of affection for 'The Big Breakfast.' It was definitely a revolutionary show.”

“Countries with big inequality gaps have big prison populations, have worse obesity rates, are less trusting, and have higher rates of violence. The gap matters, and we want people to understand that. Inequality is a great issue of our time without people being aware of it.”

“My real job is that I invent game shows for a living.”

“At some level, when we're in our teens, 20s and 30s, we think we're going to live for ever. We know that's not true, but it's something inherent in our feeling that it's just going to go on for ever, isn't it?”

“I want to make a show where we pick a handful of people who were cancelled and debate whether it was right or wrong.”

“Here in the States, I have seen plenty of examples where those who have said something stupid or offensive in public then turn up on Fox News, claiming to have been cancelled. But they are talking on a national television channel. How does that count as being cancelled?”

“I am jealous of people who only have one glass of wine and are content.”

“I have a need to toss things out every few years, to throw things in the air.”