Simon Hoggart When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, ‘and I don’t want to read that in your magazine!’ In which case I wouldn’t use it. But if they didn’t remember to say it, I’d nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject. – Simon Hoggart
Samuel West I’m not very good at relaxing. Reading’s the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don’t think there’s a moment of the day when I wouldn’t be if I was left alone. – Samuel West
Ronnie Corbett I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti’s memorial at St. Paul’s Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo. – Ronnie Corbett
Roger Allam My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall. – Roger Allam
Katie Hopkins As much as I love a smart kid who can spell nicely, I love a giggling kid wrapped in loo roll pretending to be a mummy even more. – Katie Hopkins
Jerry Hall People feel like they know you because they’ve read about you, and people who don’t know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, ‘Oh, I love you.’ It’s odd, but it’s really nice, too. – Jerry Hall
Francois Nars There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they’re going to the loo. – Francois Nars
Didi Conn My voice triggers people into recognising me, often at the weirdest times. If I’m in the theatre and talking while in line to go to the loo, the rest of the queue will turn around and say, ‘Wait a minute. It’s you.’ – Didi Conn
Christian Louboutin When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can’t go to the loo, that’s where I draw the line! – Christian Louboutin
Alain de Botton I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively – I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh. – Alain de Botton
CherLearning I’m learning English at the moment. I can say ‘Big Ben’, ‘Hello Rodney’, ‘Tower Bridge’ and ‘Loo’. – Cher
