Paul O'Grady

“My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barne...”

“When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.”

“I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not abo...”

“I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.”

“I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who...”

“I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Soci...”

“I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.”

“It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.”

“I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.”

“I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily ea...”

“I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.”