QUOTES of the week

‘Parent who has given birth.’

New term for mother, according to advice from gay rights charity Stonewall to employers seeking to boost their rankings in an equality index.

‘Don’t you dare!’

Actress Kate Winslet’s icy response to director Craig Zobel, who offered to cut a scene from her drama Mare Of Easttown showing her ‘bulgy belly’. ‘You need to deal with it – you just got to man up here. Or woman up, I should say.’ Tennis legend Martina Navratilova after world No 2 Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open over her refusal to give press conferences – she claims she is suffering mental health issues. ‘If we scamper down a rabbit hole every time we see a new variant, we’re going to spend a long time huddled away.’ Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, calls for calm in determining the response to Covid strains.

‘We were getting a lot of attention for our work and everyone just wanted to ask me about my bra.’ Christina Hendricks on her eight-year stint on TV drama Mad Men.

‘Are you kidding me? I’d pay £100,000 not to hear her talk.’ Donald Trump’s quip to Piers Morgan after he told him how much Theresa May gets paid for corporate speeches.

‘Go away, go away, I’m an officer.’

Former boxer Chris Eubank’s response to a cyclist who spotted him using his mobile while driving his Rolls-Royce.

‘I was getting bullied into taking an antibullying course.’

Lord Heseltine on being forced to take part in a compulsory two-hour anti-groping course by the House of Lords.

‘What happens to an actress like me is that you go from playing the daughter to playing the mistress, to wife and mum to granny. Then you play the old bag!’

Susan Penhaligon who has joined the West End

cast of The Mousetrap.