22 Quotes by Angus Deayton

I live 300 yards away from my ex and son. I see them all the time. We all went away on safari recently.

When I was five I said I wanted to be either a funny man or on an advert.

When you are in a long-running series you don't look outside it because you don't really need to do much else. When you don't have that you are much more open to offers, like presenting Hell's Kitchen or making a motoring show in Madagascar with Mariella Frostrup.

People think the end of a relationship is a bad thing, but it can be a natural thing.

I was the youngest of three, so simply copied my older brothers. It made life very easy. We wore the same yellow jumpers that our grandmother knitted, went to the same school, laughed at the same jokes, and supported the same football team.

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most impressive person I've met in terms of charisma and achievement.

I appear to have had more comebacks than Status Quo.

I was presenting the Baftas live on BBC1, and as I skipped down the steps on to the stage at the start, I felt my heel clip the edge of the last step. Fortunately there was just a stumble, but one centimetre more and that could have been the most dramatic entrance of any awards host.

Football is my first love - Man United, not comedy.