The Mrs Merton Show - Top 10 Quotes

Join the BAFTA-winning Caroline Aherne in The Mrs Merton Show as the lovable OAP who interviews a wide range of celebrities about their lives and careers in a five-disc set, released on 25th February 2008, containing all 31 installments of the show. Take a look at our favourite hilarious quotes from the series.

Interviewing Germaine Greer...
“You were a right old slapper in the seventies, weren't you?”

Interviewing Debbie McGee...
“What was it that first attracted you to millionaire Paul Daniels?”

Interviewing Debbie McGee...
“I think of you both as our version of David Copperfield and Claudia Schiffer, but you know, on a lower budget”

Interviewing Barbara Windsor...
"That's what I love about you Barbara; you're one of us... You're like a big film star, but you're still common as muck!"

Interviewing Kris Akabusi...
“Do you have to plan your tactics before the race or do you just try and run faster than the other blokes?"

Interviewing George Best...
“You were a sixties sensation weren’t you… you know all that marvellous football you played and then of course all the booze. Did you ever think if you hadn’t done all that running around playing football, would you have been as thirsty?”

Interviewing Des Lynham...
“I think you’re the Tom Cruise for menopausal women, we’re like putty in your hands!”

Interviewing Boy George...
“When did you first realise you preferred to lick the other side of the stamp?”

Interviewing Ken Livingstone...
“So Ken, politics – is it all a load of rubbish?”

Interviewing Melinda Messenger...
“You’re more than pair of bosoms aren’t you? Because you won rear of the year last year didn’t you?”