Rosemary Conley

"It's a day which the team and I have worked incredibly hard to try to avoid but the board and I believe that this is the most responsible course of action to take."

"My heart goes out to the staff affected, and we are talking to them today to try to work out how best we can help them"

"I wasn't sorry to lose my SAGG [Slimming and Good Grooming organisation] back in the 80s"

"It'd been a very fraught involvement. I'd worked very hard, my first marriage was wrecked. I gave everything and I got gallstones."

"But everything is for a reason and through suffering gallstones I discovered the hip and thigh diet. I think the Lord put his hand on me. That I discovered low fat, I honestly believe came from the Lord. I can't deny that. I was chosen to spread the word."

"I think mine is more acceptable, it rolls off the tongue better. But it certainly reduces the whole area. More from the seat than the hips, to be honest."

"because I'm from a family where food was a very important and enticing temptation. But I didn't enjoy it much at home. Only when I left I enjoyed it, when it wasn't prepared by my mother. I became a compulsive eater – it was gluttony. Before I was born again."

"Selecting the best eating plan to help you lose weight is very much down to the individual."

"No one diet is more popular than another. It is all down to personal preference."

"It is important for us to find a form of exercise we enjoy so that we keep doing it."

"The advent of the internet, internet shopping and mobile phones all mean that we can run our lives without moving around as much as we used to. I really don’t know where it will end unless people take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing."

"I did more classes around the county and it just grew"

"It went from talking about how to make the most of yourself to actually doing some exercise"

"The wonderful thing is that most of my class have been coming to me for at least 30 years, if not 40 years."

"When the credit crunch came, it seemed like a perfect storm."

"Human nature puts people on a pedestal and we like having someone to look up to."

"One of the hardest things when our company went into administration was that someone else could use my name."