- [discussing Frankie Howerd's homosexuality]
- Michael Grade: All his jokes were about big women
- [mimes large breasts]
- Michael Grade: "Phwoar she had..."
- Ned Sherrin: He always used to make a pass at any male that came within a mile of him. It may have been that he just didn't find me attractive, but he certainly never made a pass at me.
- Cilla Black: He was born at the wrong time. He said on more than one occasion about his homosexuality that if he could take a pill to cure that way he was, he would. And I found that very said. It was very upsetting to hear that. Because we loved him the way he was.