Alan Carr

Alan: I just think gay people need to get over themselves. Just because you're gay and on the telly doesn't mean you're a role model. I'm just a comedian. That's all I am. ... What am I meant to do? Do I go down the Julian Clary route and talk about fisting and poppers? I don't talk about being gay and I think what better equality for gays than that?

Alan: I get very protective about our seaside towns. I was born in one, Weymouth, down in Dorset, and then I lived in Blackpool. That was down to my dad Graham, a football manager. Like members of a circus, we would go wherever Dad found work, and luckily we went to the biggest seaside circus of them all.

Alan: [on his friendship with Justin Lee Collins] We couldn't be cool if we tried. But we have a lot of fun.