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The Queen does not watch Panorama - full stop.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman explains that the Queen will not be among the audience for tomorrow night's Panorama interview with the Princess of Wales, Times

This programme is going to break all records for global sales. It is a red-hot property.

A BBC spokesman explains that plenty

of other people will be watching, ibid.

I was so thrown by the book getting represented as this steamy 'kiss and tell'. I hadn't anticipated that at all.

Paula Yates on the 'surprising' response to her autobiography, Hello!

It's like pitting a mediumweight against a heavyweight in boxing.

Roberto Alagna, feted young tenor, on why comparisons with Pavarotti and Domingo are unfair, Gramophone

With due respect to Bob Hoskins, it may be good to talk, but it is far better to write and to read.

Stephen Fry on the value of E-mail, Telegraph

Oh, yeah, them dreadful women in newspapers detest me. There was that drunken lesbian from...

Jim Davidson, politically incorrect comic, rounds on his critics, Radio Times

Often I can get lost in Whitechapel and no one recognises me.

Mickey Rourke, Hollywood actor, on why he's an East End boy at heart, Evening Standard

He finds LA increasingly neurotic.

An unnamed source, on rumours that David Hockney is to return to Bridlington, Evening Standard

In every case violence has been the overriding issue.

The British Board of Film Classification 1994-95 report, on why the Board has this year rejected more films than at any time since 1988

I've never been a good businessman.

George Martin, the Beatles' producer, revealing that his fee for arranging 'Yesterday' was pounds 5, Classic FM magazine