The famously homosexual Stephen Fry was once asked about his earliest memories. "My first words, as I was being born..." Fry replied. "I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those!'"

[After his famous public declaration of celibacy in the Tatler, Emma Thompson characterised Fry as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other".]

[Fry and comedy partner Hugh Laurie once professed to "live in fear of being called gentlemen". "How can one not be fond of something," Fry once mused, "that the 'Daily Mail' despises?"]