“I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they a...” — Cilla Black Quote

“I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me.”

“I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.”

“I've got a bike in the lounge that I watch Coronation Street on. I never had to watch my weight until I had the children, but with the bike, I'm fine.”

“Whenever my family brought up the topic of my marriage, I'd joke that I would marry only a princess.”

“As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.”

“I was lucky that men wanted to marry me.”